Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Gallacher, Baron Gallacher (7 May 1920 4 January 2004) was a British co-operative official and politician. Gallacher born in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, was educated at St. Patrick''s High School, Dumbarton and worked for Vale of Leven Co-operative Society before World War II. He served in the Royal Air Force then joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) in Dumbarton as a trainee in Glasgow. In 1949, he was sent on a SCWS scholarship to the Co-operative College in Loughborough for two years and gained a Co-operative Secretary''s Diploma (CSD). He went on to work as assistant educational secretary at the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society in South London, and then moved to be education secretary with the Enfield Highway Co-operative Society. He was then the Southern Sectional Secretary of the Co-operative Union, leaving for a short while to be labour advisor to the Motor Agents'' Association before returning to the Union.