John Dennis Concannon, known as Don Concannon, (16 May 1930 – 14 December 2003), was a British

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 Labour Party

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 politician.

Born in Doncaster

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, Concannon was educated at Rossington

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 secondary school

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 and through the extramural

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 department of the University of Nottingham

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. He worked as a miner and as a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) official and served as a councillor on Mansfield Borough Council

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 from 1963.

Concannon was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Mansfield

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 at the 1966 election. Under Harold Wilson

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 and James Callaghan

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 (Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979), he served as a Government whip

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 and as Northern Ireland

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 minister, and was appointed a member of the Privy Council

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 in 1978. He was sponsored by the NUM.

A serious car accident led to his retirement as MP for Mansfield at the 1987 election; Alan Meale

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 succeeded him in his seat.

Concannon died in Mansfield

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, aged 73.

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