Herbert Whitten | |
Office: | Mayor of Craigavon |
Term Start: | 1978 |
Term End: | 1979 |
Office1: | Member of Craigavon Borough Council |
Constituency1: | Craigavon Area B |
Term Start1: | 30 May 1973 |
Term End1: | 1981 |
Predecessor1: | Council established |
Office2: | Member of the Constitutional Convention for Armagh |
Term Start2: | 1975 |
Term End2: | 1976 |
Predecessor2: | Convention established |
Successor2: | Convention dissolved |
Office3: | Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Armagh |
Term Start3: | 28 June 1973 |
Term End3: | 1974 |
Office4: | Member of Parliament for Central Armagh |
Term Start4: | 24 February 1969 |
Term End4: | 1972 |
Predecessor4: | Isaac Hawthorne |
Successor4: | Parliament abolished |
Office5: | Member of Portadown District Council |
Term Start5: | 1968 |
Term End5: | 1973 |
Successor5: | Council abolished |
Birth Date: | 1909 |
Birth Place: | Portadown, Northern Ireland |
Death Date: | 1981 |
Party: | Ulster Unionist Party |
Herbert Whitten (1909–1981) was a Northern Irish unionist politician.
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 1969 Northern Ireland general election, 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. In 1978–79, he served as Mayor of Craigavon.