Early Life
John Cummings was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, a fifth generation coal miner, he was educated at the Murton Council Infant and Junior schools on Watt Street and Secondary school. He attended both the Easington Technical College and the Durham Technical College until 1962. He began his career with the National Coal Board as a miner in 1958, becoming a pit electrician from 1967 until his election to parliament twenty years later. He was elected as councillor to the Easington District Council in 1970, was its chairman 1975-1976, and its leader from 1979 until he stepped down in 1987. He was a member of the Northumbrian Water Authority and the Peterlee and Newton Aycliffe Development Corporation. He was a trade unionist with the National Union of Mineworkers and was a trustee for the union from 1986-2000.
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