About Joseph Foster Cairns
Lived 1920 – 1981 (aged 60). Joseph Foster Cairns was a British politician.
Joseph Foster Cairns (27 June 1920 – 2 May 1981) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Cairns was the managing director of a furniture retailer, and chairman of a development company. He was elected to the Belfast Corporation for the Ulster Unionist Party, and served as Lord Mayor of Belfast from 1969 to 1972. At the 1969 Northern Ireland general election, he stood in Belfast Oldpark, but was not elected. Cairns died in May 1981 at the age of 60.
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Who was Joseph Foster Cairns?
British politician (1920-1981)
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Joseph Foster Cairns was born on 27 June 1920.
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Joseph Foster Cairns died on 2 May 1981.
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Joseph Foster Cairns was a politician.
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Joseph Foster Cairns was British.
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