Herbert Whitten

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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.^[1]

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.^[1] In 1978-9, he served as Mayor of Craigavon.

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1. ^ ^{a b} Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons

Political offices
Preceded by Sydney Cairns	Mayor of Craigavon 1978 - 79	Succeeded by A. Locke