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Name
  
Herbert Whitten

Role
  
Politician


Died
  
1981

Herbert Whitten (1909–1981) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Born in Portadown, Whitten became the managing director of T. A. Shillington, a builders' merchants. He was elected to Portadown District Council as an Ulster Unionist Party member in 1968, and at the Northern Ireland general election, 1969, he was elected for Central Armagh.

In 1973, following the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland, Whitten was elected to Craigavon Borough Council, and he also took a seat in Armagh on the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly. He held this seat on the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention. In 1978–79, he served as Mayor of Craigavon.

References

Herbert Whitten Wikipedia


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