Rev Dr Robert Coulter MLA

Member of the Legislative Assembly

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 (born 1929) is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland

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He is an Ulster Unionist Party

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 MLA for North Antrim

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. Coulter was born in 1929, making him the second oldest MLA after the Rev. Ian Paisley

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He was educated at Ballymena

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 College, Trinity College, Dublin

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 and the University of Ulster

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He is married with one son and one daughter. He is a retired Presbyterian minister and a former lecturer in religious studies at Belfast Institute for Further and Higher Education

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He was elected a Councillor for Ballymena Borough Council in 1985 and was Mayor of Ballymena from 1993 to 1996.

Coulter was elected Alderman

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 of the Borough of Ballymena in 1996.

He was elected to represent the constituency of North Antrim in the Northern Ireland Forum

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for Political Dialogue (1996–1998)

He was a member of the Health, Social Service and Public Safety Committee in the 1998-2003 Assembly.

Coulter was re-elected to his Assembly seat in 2007.

In 2010, the Reverend Dr. Robert Coulter was honored for his public service with membership in the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.