Charles McCullough

For the baseball player, see Charlie McCullough.

Charles McCullough, sometimes known as Charlie McCullough, is a former unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

McCullough was based on the Shankill Road.[1] He was a member of the founding executive of Ulster Protestant Action, in 1956.[2] He was elected to Belfast City Council for the group in 1958,[3] topping the poll.[4] He left the group before the next elections, in 1961, joining the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).[5]

Cullough secured re-election under his new party colours and, by 1965, he was the chair of its Improvement Committee. He resigned from this following a dispute over the naming of the Queen Elizabeth Bridge; he had instead hoped it would be named for Edward Carson, and believed that this name had been rejected due to party indiscipline.[6]

In 1968, McCullough was elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland.[7] He resigned from the UUP in September 1970,[8] and became a founder member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) the following year.[9] The Senate ceased to meet in 1972,[7] and, although McCullough remained a supporter of the DUP, he did not stand in any further elections.

References

  1. ^ Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, Paisley, p.79
  2. ^ Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, Paisley, p.82
  3. ^ Clifford Smyth, Ian Paisley: Voice of Protestant Ulster, p.9
  4. ^ Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, Paisley, p.89
  5. ^ Ed Moloney and Andrew Pollak, Paisley, p.100
  6. ^ Ian Budge and Cornelius O'Leary, Belfast: approach to crisis: a study of Belfast politics, 1613-1970, p.163
  7. ^ a b "The Northern Ireland Senate, 1921-72", Northern Ireland Elections
  8. ^ Richard Deutsch, Northern Ireland 1969-73 a chronology of events, p.127
  9. ^ Official report of debates, Issue 12, Northern Ireland Assembly (1982), p.155