John Dennis Concannon (16 May 1930 – 14 December 2003), known as Don Concannon, was a British Labour Party politician. Born in

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, Concannon was educated at

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and through the Extra-Mural Department of the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

. He worked as a miner and as a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) official. He was a councillor on Mansfield Borough Council from 1963. Concannon was elected as the Member of Parliament for

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at the 1966 election. Under

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and

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

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and as

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minister, and was appointed a member of the Privy Council 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 Sir Joseph Alan Meale (born 31 July 1949) is a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mansfield from 1987 to 2017. Early life Meale attended St Joseph RC School in Bishop Auckland and studied at Ruskin ...

succeeded him in the seat. Concannon died in

on 14 December 2003, aged 73.

References

*''Times Guide to the House of Commons 1983'' *''

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'' (1999)
Obituary in ''The Guardian''
*

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