Frank Millar
In office In office In office Preceded by District created Succeeded by David Browne Constituency Castle In office Preceded by District created Succeeded by District abolished Constituency Belfast Area H In office Succeeded by District abolished Constituency Belfast Dock In office In office In office
Born 1925Belfast , Northern Ireland Died 13 May 2001 Political party Independent Unionist (from 1975) Ulster Unionist (until 1975)Other political Ulster Protestant Action (1956 - 1966)
Frank Millar (1925 – 13 May 2001) was a Northern Irish unionist politician .
Background
Millar worked in the shipyards , where he became a shop steward , before becoming a founder member of Ulster Protestant Action in 1956.[ 1]
Millar was first elected to Belfast City Council in 1972, representing Dock,[ 2] Shore Road areas. He held his seat at each subsequent election until retiring in 1993 . He was Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1981-2 and 1992-3.[ 1]
Millar was also elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973 for Belfast North
as an Ulster Unionist Party anti-Sunningdale Agreement candidate. He held his seat on the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975 as an independent Unionist , and for the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly .[ 1]
In 1986, Millar was fined £100 for describing supporters of Cliftonville F.C. as "Republican bastards". Two years later, he called for Irish Travellers to be "incinerated",[ 2] Democratic Unionist Party councillor Sammy Wilson .[ 1] Nelson Mandela as a "black Provo ", and gay people as "deviants".[ 2]
In the late 1980s, Millar campaigned against the privatisation of the Harland and Wolff shipyard.[ 1]
Millar's son, Frank Millar Jr , was also an Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member.[ 2]
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