Rose Jean Coulter is a former Northern Irish unionist politician.
Background Born in the Shankill Road district of Belfast, Coulter studied at the Girls' Model School before becoming a solicitor's clerk. She also became active in the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). In June 1973, she worked with John Laird and Hugh Smyth to form the West Belfast Loyalist Coalition, which contested the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election.Ted Nealon, Ireland: a Parliamentary Directory, 1973–1974, p.196 All three were elected from the Belfast West constituency. In Coulter's case, she was co-sponsored by the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party.West Belfast 1973–1982, Northern Ireland Elections
In January 1974, Brian Faulkner resigned as leader of the UUP, and Coulter switched her affiliation back to that party, allowing the West Belfast Loyalist Coalition to become inactive. In 1975, she was elected to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention as a UUP member. Although she did not stand for election again, she remained politically active, calling for the Royal Air Force to bomb Irish republican areas of Northern Ireland, claiming that there were no "innocent people" there.David McKittrick, Lost Lives, p.746 She opposed the Belfast Agreement,Suzanne Breen, "No room for ghosts of Northern past at UUP's time for historic decision", Irish Times, 29 November 1999 and by the 2005 UK general election, was a supporter of the Democratic Unionist Party.Belfast South: Statement of Persons Nominated and Notice of Poll , Electoral Office of Northern Ireland
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