Don Concannon
John Dennis Concannon , known as Don Concannon, was a British Labour Party politician.
Born in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, Concannon was educated at Rossington Secondary School and through the Extra-Mural Department of the University of Nottingham. He worked as a miner and as a National Union of Mineworkers official. He was a councillor on Mansfield Borough Council from 1963.
Concannon was elected as the Member of Parliament for Mansfield at the 1966 election. Under Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, he served as a government whip and as Northern Ireland 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 succeeded him in the seat.
Concannon died in Mansfield on 14 December 2003, aged 73.
