Joe Hendron

Joe Hendron
Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for Belfast West
In office
25 June 1999  26 November 2003
Preceded by Office Created
Succeeded by Diane Dodds
Member of Parliament
for Belfast West
In office
9 April 1992  1 May 1997
Preceded by Gerry Adams
Succeeded by Gerry Adams
Personal details
Born (1932-11-12) 12 November 1932
Nationality Irish
Political party SDLP
Children 2
Profession Physician
Religion Roman Catholic

Joseph Gerard Hendron (born 12 November 1932) is a Northern Ireland politician, a member of the moderate Irish nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

Hendron, also a local GP physician for 40 years, was first elected as a political representative of Belfast West in 1975 to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention. He was later elected to Belfast City Council in 1981 and in 1982 to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Hendron was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West between April 1992 and May 1997 in the UK Parliament in London. He had taken the seat from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams at his third attempt with a majority of 1%. He became the only nationalist MP to defeat Adams. The seat had previous been held for the SDLP by Gerry Fitt- later Lord Fitt until 1983. Hendron attracted unprecedented cross-community support from Nationalists and Unionists in the constituency.

Adams regained the seat at the next election in May 1997.

In 1996 Hendron was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum and in 1998 to the newly reconvened Northern Ireland Assembly. However he lost his seat in the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election to a member of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party.

He was appointed a member of the Northern Ireland Parades Commission in 2005[1] Dr Hendron retired in December 2010 from this body.[2]

References

  1. Appointments made to parades body, BBC News, 30 November 2005, accessed 12 February 2012
  2. New Parades Commission for Northern Ireland appointed, BBC News, 20 December 2010, accessed 12 February 2012

Bibliography

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Gerry Adams
Member of Parliament for Belfast West
19921997
Succeeded by
Gerry Adams
Northern Ireland Assembly
Preceded by
New creation
MLA for Belfast West
1998 - 2003
Succeeded by
Diane Dodds
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