Charles McCullough | |
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Member of the Northern Ireland Senate | |
In office 1970–1972 | |
Member of Belfast City Council | |
In office 1958–1965 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 18 December 1923 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Died | 4 October 2014 |
Political party |
Democratic Unionist (from 1971) Ulster Unionist Party (1961 - 1970) |
Other political affiliations | Ulster Protestant Action (1956 - 1961) |
Charles McCullough, sometimes known as Charlie McCullough, (18 December 1923 – 4 October 2014) [1] was a Northern Irish unionist politician, native of Belfast.
McCullough was based on the Shankill Road. [2] He was a member of the founding executive of Ulster Protestant Action, in 1956. [3] He was elected to Belfast City Council for the group in 1958, [4] topping the poll. [5] He left the group before the next elections, in 1961, joining the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). [6]
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. [7]
In 1968, McCullough was elected to the Senate of Northern Ireland. [8] He resigned from the UUP in September 1970, [9] and became a founder member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) the following year. [10] The Senate ceased to meet in 1972, [8] and, although McCullough remained a supporter of the DUP, he did not stand in any further elections. On 4 October 2014, he died at the age of 90. [11]