Joseph Gerard Hendron (born 12 November 1932) is a Northern Ireland politician, a member of the centre-left Irish nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).
[1] Hendron, also a local GP physician for 40 years, was first elected as a political representative of Belfast West in 1975 to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention.
He had taken the seat from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams at his third attempt with a majority of 1%.
Hendron attracted unprecedented cross-community support from Nationalists and Unionists in the constituency.
However, he lost his seat in the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election to a member of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party.