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Peter David Robinson, 2008.

Peter David Robinson

British politician
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December 29, 1948, Belfast, Northern Ireland (age 76)
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Peter David Robinson (born December 29, 1948, Belfast, Northern Ireland) was a politician who served in the British House of Commons (1979–85, 1986–2010) and who became the first minister of Northern Ireland on June 5, 2008, serving in that capacity until January 2016. Robinson grew up in Belfast in an era when Northern Ireland’s mainly Protestant unionists completely dominated the politics of the province through the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). After studying at Belfast’s Metropolitan College, he became a real-estate agent. Following the death in 1971 of a school friend at the hands of the recently revived Irish Republican Army ...(100 of 1012 words)

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