Editing David Trimble (section)

===Political career===
Trimble became involved with the right-wing, paramilitary-linked [[Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party]] (known as Vanguard) in the early 1970s. He ran unsuccessfully for the party in the [[1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election|1973 Assembly election]] for [[North Down (Assembly constituency)|North Down]], coming last.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/cnd.htm |title=North Down 1973–1982 |first=Nicholas |last=Whyte |work=Northern Ireland Elections |publisher=[[Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930185624/http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/cnd.htm |archive-date=30 September 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1974, he was a legal adviser to the [[Ulster Workers' Council]] during the successful [[Ulster Workers' Council strike|UWC strike]] against the [[Sunningdale Agreement]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YMTqYuvA10C&pg=PA299 |title=The Routledge Dictionary of Modern British History |access-date=30 June 2010 |isbn=9780415192439 |last1=Plowright |first1=John |year=2006 |publisher=Routledge |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831025353/https://books.google.com/books?id=6YMTqYuvA10C&pg=PA299 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Trimble was elected to the [[Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention]] in 1975 as a Vanguard member for [[Belfast South (UK Parliament constituency)|Belfast South]] and, for a time, served as the party's joint deputy leader, along with the [[Ulster Defence Association]]'s [[Glenn Barr]].<ref name="google2">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ny77bPwKxaUC&q=%22david+trimble%22&pg=PA323 |title=The Nobel Peace Prize and the ... |access-date=29 June 2010 |isbn=9780881353884 |last1=Abrams |first1=Irwin |year=2001 |publisher=Science History Publications/USA |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831004014/https://books.google.com/books?id=ny77bPwKxaUC&q=%22david+trimble%22&pg=PA323 |url-status=live }}</ref> The party had been established by [[William Craig (Northern Ireland politician)|Bill Craig]] to oppose sharing power with Irish Nationalists and to prevent closer ties with the Republic of Ireland; however, Trimble was one of those to back Craig when the party split over Craig's proposal to allow voluntary power sharing with the SDLP.<ref name="Telegraph obit">{{cite news|title=Lord Trimble, politician who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in sealing the Good Friday Agreement – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/07/25/lord-trimble-politician-who-jointly-won-nobel-peace-prize-role/|date=25 July 2022|access-date=25 July 2022|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|archive-date=25 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725222202/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/07/25/lord-trimble-politician-who-jointly-won-nobel-peace-prize-role/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Trimble joined the mainstream [[Ulster Unionist Party]] (UUP) in 1978 after Vanguard disbanded and was elected one of the four party secretaries.<ref name="warwicklawsociety2004"/><ref name="google2"/> He served as vice chairman of the [[Lagan Valley]] Unionist Association from 1983 to 1985 and was named chairman in 1985.<ref name="nobelprize1998">{{Cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1998/trimble-bio.html |title=David Trimble – Biography |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=29 June 2010 |archive-date=15 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215035517/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1998/trimble-bio.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He served as chairman of the UUP Legal Committee from 1989 to 1995 and as honorary secretary of the Ulster Unionist Council in 1990–96.<ref name="nobelprize1998"/>

Trimble was elected to Parliament with 58% of the vote in a [[1990 Upper Bann by-election|by-election in Upper Bann in 1990]].<ref name="google2"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cjkdAAAAIBAJ&pg=3120,5682175&dq=david-trimble&hl=en|work=Tuscaloosa News|title=Tories trounced in N. Ireland|access-date=31 March 2020|archive-date=30 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830052021/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cjkdAAAAIBAJ&pg=3120,5682175&dq=david-trimble&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=52150|page=9691|date=25 May 1990}}</ref> He was one of the few British politicians who urged support for the government of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] during the [[War in Bosnia and Herzegovina|civil war]] in the 1990s.<ref name="Telegraph obit"/>