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Derek Hussey Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly
for West TyroneIn office
25 June 1998 – 7 March 2007Preceded by New Creation Succeeded by Allan Bresland Personal details Born 12 September 1948
Padstow, CornwallPolitical party Ulster Unionist Party Website http://www.uup.org/ Derek Robert Hussey (born 12 September 1948, Padstow, Cornwall, UK) is a Ulster Unionist politician from Northern Ireland
Hussey was educated at Omagh Model School, Omagh Academy and Stranmillis College, Belfast. He previously was a teacher at Castlederg High School.
In 1989 he was elected as councillor on Strabane District Council.[1] In 2007 he was elected Chairman of the council. In the 1996 election to the Northern Ireland Peace Forum, Hussey was elected as representative for West Tyrone.
In 1998 he was elected as MLA to the Northern Ireland Assembly and re-elected in 2003.[2] He was an outgoing candidate in the 2007 Assembly elections, but lost his seat. His brother, Ross Hussey, re-took the seat in 2011.
He is the Ulster Unionist spokesperson on Victims Issues.[3]
He also has a special interest in regional development, Ulster-Scots and the Orange Order.
Trivia
He was a member of a country and western music band and was known to wear cowboy boots in the 1998-2003 Assembly.[4]
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External links
Northern Ireland Assembly Preceded by
New creationMLA for Tyrone, West
1998 - 2007Succeeded by
Allan BreslandCategories:- 1948 births
- Living people
- People from Padstow
- Councillors in Northern Ireland
- Members of the Northern Ireland Forum
- Northern Ireland MLAs 1998–2003
- Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–2007
- Ulster Unionist Party politicians
- British politician stubs
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