Sam Gardiner

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Sam Gardiner MLA
Sam Gardiner

Incumbent
Assumed office 
2003
Constituency Upper Bann

Born March 24, 1940 (1940-03-24) (age 68)
Lurgan, Northern Ireland
Political party Ulster Unionist Party
Website Gardiner UUP

Alderman Samuel Gardiner MBE JP MLA (born 24 March 1940) is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland for the Ulster Unionist Party who is an MLA for Upper Bann

Gardiner was elected to Lurgan Borough Council (now Craigavon Borough Council) in 1963 and held office of Mayor in that borough in 1968[citation needed]. He was Mayor of Craigavon 1982/3, 1988/9 and 2000/1.

He was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum and was party whip in the same in 1996-1998[citation needed].

Gardiner was elected to the Assembly in 2003. He serves on the Environmental, Leisure Services and Public Services Liaison Committees.

He is a former High Sheriff for County Armagh and was appointed as a Justice of the Peace.

He is Chairman of Glenavon F.C.. [1]

Gardiner is UUP Spokesperson on Environment.

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Political offices
Preceded by
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Mayor of Lurgan
1968 - 69
Succeeded by
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Preceded by
M. Simpson
Mayor of Craigavon
1982 - 83
Succeeded by
James Gillespie
Preceded by
Sydney Cairns
Mayor of Craigavon
1988 - 89
Succeeded by
James McCammick
Preceded by
Fred Crowe
Mayor of Craigavon
2001 - 2002
Succeeded by
Jonathan Bell