Joseph Foster Cairns Explained

Joseph Foster Cairns
Birth Date:	1920 6, df=yes

Joseph Foster Cairns (27 June 1920 – 2 May 1981) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Cairns was the managing director of a furniture retailer, and chairman of a development company. He was elected to the Belfast Corporation for the Ulster Unionist Party, and served as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1969 to 1972.^[1] At the 1969 Northern Ireland general election, he stood in Belfast Oldpark, but was not elected.^[2] Cairns died in May 1981 at the age of 60.^[3]

References

1. John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973, p.208
2. Web site: Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: Boroughs: Belfast. www.election.demon.co.uk. 2 July 2010. 22 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180722074311/http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/belfast.html. dead.
3. Web site: Joseph Foster Cairns 1920 - 1981 BillionGraves Record. BillionGraves.