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Jack Cunningham

The Right Honourable
The Lord Cunningham of Felling
PC DL
Minister for the Cabinet Office
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
In office
27 July 1998 – 11 October 1999
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by David Clark
Succeeded by Mo Mowlam
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
In office
2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Douglas Hogg
Succeeded by Nick Brown
Shadow Secretary of State for National Heritage
In office
19 October 1995 – 2 May 1997
Leader Tony Blair
Preceded by Chris Smith
Succeeded by Virginia Bottomley
Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
In office
20 October 1994 – 19 October 1995
Leader Tony Blair
Preceded by Robin Cook
Succeeded by Margaret Beckett
Shadow Foreign Secretary
In office
24 July 1992 – 20 October 1994
Leader John Smith
Margaret Beckett (Acting)
Tony Blair
Preceded by Gerald Kaufman
Succeeded by Robin Cook
Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
In office
2 November 1989 – 24 July 1992
Leader Neil Kinnock
Preceded by Frank Dobson
Succeeded by Margaret Beckett
Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment
In office
2 October 1983 – 2 November 1989
Leader Neil Kinnock
Preceded by Gerald Kaufman
Succeeded by Bryan Gould
Under Secretary of State for Energy
In office
10 September 1976 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister Jim Callaghan
Preceded by Gordon Oakes
Succeeded by Norman Lamont
Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
In office
10 September 1976 – 21 February 1977
Prime Minister Jim Callaghan
Preceded by John Tomlinson
Succeeded by Roger Stott
Member of Parliament
for Copeland
Whitehaven (1970–1983)
In office
18 June 1970 – 11 April 2005
Preceded by Joseph Symonds
Succeeded by Jamie Reed
Personal details
Born John Anderson Cunningham
(1939-08-04) 4 August 1939 (age 77)
Durham, England, UK
Political party Labour
Alma mater Durham University

John Anderson Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, PC, DL (born 4 August 1939) is a British politician who was the Labour Member of Parliament for Copeland from the 1983 to the 2005 general elections, and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.

His father was Andrew Cunningham, leader of the Labour Party in the Northern Region in the 1970s, who was disgraced in the 1974 Poulson scandal. Dr Cunningham was first elected as member for Whitehaven in 1970; and the renamed Copeland constituency, which was the same constituency as Whitehaven, in 1983.

He was educated at Jarrow Grammar School (now Jarrow School) in the same class as Doug McAvoy, future general secretary of the National Union of Teachers. Cunningham then studied at Bede College of Durham University, receiving a BSc in Chemistry in 1962, and a PhD in 1967. He stayed at the university to become a research fellow from 1966-8, whilst working as an officer for the General and Municipal Workers' Union.


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