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Trimble was born in 1944. He was educated in Bangor and at Queen's University, Belfast. He qualified as a barrister and began to lecture in law in 1968. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Convention in 1975 as a Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party member for South Belfast and for a time he served as the party's deputy leader. When the Vanguard party collapsed he joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) in 1978 and became party secretary. He was elected to Westminster in a by-election in Upper BannUpper Bann is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Boundaries The seat was created in boundary changes in 1983, as part of an expansion of Northern Ireland's constituencie in 1990Events January January 3 Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces. January 7 The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public due to safety concerns. January 9 Lt Gen Bazilio Olara Okello The man who led the coup aginst Dr Apo. In 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja Trimble was elected leader of the UUP.

He opposed the role of Senator George MitchellNote: Middle initial used to disambiguate from George Mitchell (musician George John Mitchell (born August 20, 1933) was a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was an attorney from the 1960s. In 19 as chairman of the multi-party talks which resulted in the Belfast AgreementThe Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement and, more rarely, as the Stormont Agreement was signed in Belfast on April 10 1998 by the British and Irish Governments and endorsed by most Northern Ireland political parties. It was endorsed of 1998. Trimble was seen as instrumental in getting his party to accept the unprecedented agreement. Later in 1998 Trimble and John Hume were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Trimble was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly and subsequently became First Minister of Northern Ireland. The assembly was, however, suspended after only two months, but was reinstated again in 2000 after a statement by the IRA on arms decommissioning. In October 2000 Trimble was forced to suspend Sinn Féin members of the assembly from attending cross-border ministerial meetings with their conterparts in the Republic of Ireland. Since then things have deteriorated for Trimble - in 2002 the Assembly and Executive were suspended again, and in 2003, the Democratic Unionist Party became the largest unionist party in the province. Later, a UUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson resigned from the party.