John McCann (4 December 1910 – 16 July 1972) was a British politician, who served as the

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Member of Parliament for Rochdale. McCann was educated at elementary school and then at classes of the National Council of Labour Colleges and Workers' Educational Association. He became an engineer and diesel engine fitter and served with the Home Guard during World War II. He was elected a councillor on Eccles Borough Council in 1945 and was leader of the Labour Group. He was an Alderman in Eccles from 1952 and Mayor 1955–56. He served as chairman of the West Manchester Hospital Management Committee. McCann first contested the Rochdale seat for Parliament in 1955 without success. He was first elected in a 1958 by-election following the death of the sitting Conservative MP Wentworth Schofield. He became an opposition

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in 1961 and in 1964 was appointed to the Government's Whips' Office as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, then in 1966 as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, returning to be a Lord of the Treasury 1967–69. McCann died at Davyhulme Hospital on 16 July 1972, aged 61, after about a year of ill health. In the consequent by-election in October, he was succeeded as MP by the Liberal candidate Cyril Smith, who had previously been a Labour mayor of the town.

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* 1910 births 1972 deaths Amalgamated Engineering Union-sponsored MPs British Home Guard soldiers Councillors in Greater Manchester Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Mayors of places in Greater Manchester Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Rochdale Ministers in the Wilson governments, 1964–1970 People from Eccles, Greater Manchester UK MPs 1955–1959 UK MPs 1959–1964 UK MPs 1964–1966 UK MPs 1966–1970 UK MPs 1970–1974 {{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub