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Reg Empey
British politician
Also known as: Reginald Norman Morgan Empey
Reg Empey (born October 26, 1947, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a politician who served as a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (1998–2011) and as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP; 2005–2010). Empey attended Queen’s University Belfast, earning a degree in economics in 1970. After graduating, he worked in the private sector, with stints at Goodyear and at the retailer House of Fraser, before establishing his own clothing business in 1986. That such an undertaking was risky during the “Troubles” (factional strife between the Protestant and Catholic communities of Northern Ireland) was especially clear to Empey, who during the ...(100 of 536 words)