Jim Wilson (born 15 December 1941) is a

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, who was an

Ulster Unionist Party The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) is a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. The party was founded in 1905, emerging from the Irish Unionist Alliance in Ulster. Under Edward Carson, it led unionist opposition to the Irish Home Rule movem ...

(UUP) Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for South Antrim from 1998 to 2007. Born in

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, Wilson attended Belfast College of Technology before becoming a

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. He was elected to

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in 1975 for the

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, and joined the

the following year. However, he resigned his position on the council in 1988. He was UUP General Secretary from the late 1980s until 1998. Wilson was elected to the

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for South Antrim in 1998 and held his seat at the 2003 election. He retired from front line politics in 2007. In March 2007 he was reappointed General Secretary of the UUP.

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Northern Ireland Assembly - Biography - Jim Wilson
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Jim 1941 births Living people Northern Ireland MLAs 1998–2003 Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–2007 Members of Newtownabbey Borough Council Politicians from County Antrim Ulster Unionist Party MLAs Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party politicians People from Newtownabbey