George Green (politician)

George Green
George Green
Member of North Down Borough Council
	In office; 19 May 1993 – 21 May 1997
Preceded by	Thomas Miskelly
Succeeded by	Anne Wilson
Constituency	Bangor West
	In office; 15 May 1985 – 19 May 1993
Preceded by	District created
Succeeded by	Ann Thompson
Constituency	Abbey
	In office; 30 May 1973 – 15 May 1985
Preceded by	Council created
Succeeded by	District abolished
Constituency	North Down Area B
Member of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention ; for North Down
	In office; 1975–1976
Personal details
Political party	NI Conservative (from 1989)
Other political; affiliations	UUP (1985–89) ; UPUP (1980–85) ; UUUP (1975–80) ; Vanguard (1973–75) ; Independent Loyalist (1973)

George Green was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

Biography[edit]

Green was the chairman of the Ulster Special Constabulary Association (USCA), a group which focussed on opposition to the Irish Republican Army.^[1] He was elected to North Down Borough Council in 1973 as an independent loyalist.^[2]

At the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, Green stood in North Down for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, but he was not elected.^[3] Through his role in the USCA, he was a prominent leader of the Ulster Workers' Council strike,^[1] and was able to gain election to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.^[3] Soon after, he left Vanguard to join the United Ulster Unionist Party split,^[1] but this was collapsing by 1980, and Green instead joined James Kilfedder's Ulster Popular Unionist Party, for which he very narrowly missed being elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982.^[3]

Green left the Popular Unionists, and was re-elected at the 1985 local elections for the Ulster Unionist Party, then in 1989^[4] and 1993 for the Conservatives in Northern Ireland, standing down in 1997.^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c Henry Patterson and Eric P. Kaufmann, Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945, p.185
^ The Local Government Elections 1973-1981: North Down", Northern Ireland Elections
^ ^a ^b ^c North Down 1973-1982, Northern Ireland Elections
^ Local Government Elections 1985 - 1989: North Down, Northern Ireland Elections]
^ North Down Borough Council Elections 1993-2005, Northern Ireland Elections

Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
New convention	Member for North Down 1975–1976	Convention dissolved

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