Herbert Whitten (1909–1981) was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

Background

Born in

Portadown Portadown ( ) is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town is based on the River Bann in the north of the county, about southwest of Belfast. It is in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area and had a population ...

, Whitten became the managing director of T. A. Shillington, a builders' merchants. He was elected to Portadown District Council as an

Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded as the Ulster Unionist Council in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it l ...

member in 1968, and at the

1969 Northern Ireland general election The 1969 Northern Ireland general election was held on Monday 24 February 1969. It was the last election to the Parliament of Northern Ireland before its abolition by the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973. This was the first (and only) el ...

, he was elected for Central Armagh.Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons
/ref> In 1973, following the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland, Whitten was elected to

Craigavon Borough Council Craigavon Borough Council was a local council in counties Armagh, Down and Antrim, in Northern Ireland. It merged with Armagh City and District Council and Banbridge District Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Nor ...

, and he also took a seat in

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on the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly. He held this seat on the

Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention (NICC) was an elected body set up in 1975 by the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK), Labour government of Harold Wilson as an attempt to deal with constitutional issues surrounding the status of N ...

. In 1978–79, he served as Mayor of Craigavon.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whitten, Herbert 1909 births 1981 deaths Businesspeople from Northern Ireland Mayors of Craigavon Members of Craigavon Borough Council Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1969–1973 Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly 1973–1974 Members of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for County Armagh constituencies