{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2017}} '''Edward Vincent McCullagh''' (2 December 1912 – 28 November 1986) was a nationalist politician and farmer in Northern Ireland.
He was born in the townland of Sheskinshule (Greencastle) in 1912, the son of Patrick McCullagh, merchant, and Maggie McGurk.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1913/01462/1596863.pdf|title=General Registrar's Office|website=IrishGenealogy.ie|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref>
McCullagh was a member of Omagh Rural District Council and was active in his local Gaelic Athletic Association. In 1948, he won a by-election in Mid Tyrone and was elected to the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Nationalist Party. His chief interests in Parliament were farming and rural issues.<ref name="lynn">Brendan Lynn, ''Holding the Ground: The Nationalist Party in Northern Ireland, 1945–72'' (1997), {{ISBN|1-85521-980-8}}</ref>
McCullagh held his seat at the 1949 general election, then worked with the Nationalist MPs Cahir Healy and Joe Connellan and the independent Republican Charles McGleenan in lobbying for admission to the Dáil, as elected representatives of territory it claimed.<ref name="orange">Michael Farrell, ''Northern Ireland: The Orange State''</ref> A motion from Con Lehane proposing this was rejected.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4ssPAAAAIAAJ The Round Table, Vol XLI] (1951)</ref>
McCullagh lost his seat to the Anti-Partition candidate Liam Kelly at the 1953 general election.<ref>[http://www.election.demon.co.uk/stormont/biographies.html Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons]</ref>
He died in 1986.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Death of former Mid-Tyrone MP|date=6 December 1986|work=Ulster Herald|page=20}}</ref>
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