George Green was a unionist politician

Politician

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 in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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Green was the chairman of the Ulster Special Constabulary

Ulster Special Constabulary

The Ulster Special Constabulary was a reserve police force in Northern Ireland. It was set up in October 1920, shortly before the founding of Northern Ireland. It was an armed corps, organised partially on military lines and called out in times of emergency, such as war or insurgency...

 Association (USCA), a group which focussed on opposition to the Irish Republican Army

Irish Republican Army

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. He was elected to North Down Borough Council

North Down Borough Council

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 in 1973

Northern Ireland local elections, 1973

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 as an independent

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 loyalist.

At the Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973

Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973

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, Green stood in North Down

North Down (Assembly constituency)

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 for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party, but he was not elected. Through his role in the USCA, he was a prominent leader of the Ulster Workers' Council strike

Ulster Workers' Council Strike

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, and was able to gain election to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention

Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention

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. Soon after, he left Vanguard to join the United Ulster Unionist Party

United Ulster Unionist Party

The United Ulster Unionist Party was a unionist political party which existed in Northern Ireland between 1975 and 1984.It emerged from a division in the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party in the late 1970s...

 split, but this was collapsing by 1980, and Green instead joined James Kilfedder

James Kilfedder

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's Ulster Popular Unionist Party

Ulster Popular Unionist Party

The Ulster Popular Unionist Party was a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1980 by James Kilfedder, independent Unionist Member of Parliament for North Down, who led the party until his death in 1995....

, for which he very narrowly missed being elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982

Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982

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Green left the Popular Unionists, and was re-elected at the 1985 local elections

Northern Ireland local elections, 1985

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 for the Ulster Unionist Party

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, then in 1989

Northern Ireland local elections, 1989

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 and 1993

Northern Ireland local elections, 1993

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 for the Conservatives in Northern Ireland

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, standing down in 1997.