John Edmondson Whittaker (1897 – c.9 December 1945) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
After working as a weaver in a cotton mill as a boy, Whittaker was educated at Burnley Municipal College and Sarisbury Court Church of England Teachers' Training College, Hampshire.
[1] He was headmaster of Rosegrove County Modern School, Burnley until his election as Member of Parliament for Heywood and Radcliffe at the 1945 general election, when he defeated the sitting Conservative MP, James Henry Wootton-Davies, by 892 votes.
After being elected to Parliament Whittaker suffered bouts of ill-health, first influenza after which he returned to his parliamentary duties against doctor's orders, then collapsing in Manchester.
His body was discovered two days later at Crown Point, a remote moorland spot near Burnley, by a group of boys who had gone for a walk.