{{Short description|Member of the Scottish Parliament (born 1946)}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}} {{Use British English|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = John Pentland | image = JohnPentlandMSPPortrait.jpg | image_size = | caption = | office = [[Member of the Scottish Parliament]] for [[Motherwell and Wishaw (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Motherwell and Wishaw]] | term_start = 5 May 2011 | term_end = 24 March 2016 | predecessor = [[Jack McConnell]] | successor = [[Clare Adamson]] | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | birth_name = | party = [[Scottish Labour]] | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | committees = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''John Williamson Pentland''' is a former [[Scottish Labour|Scottish Labour Party]] politician. He was the [[Member of the Scottish Parliament]] (MSP) for the [[Motherwell and Wishaw (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Motherwell and Wishaw]] constituency from 2011 to 2016.
Pentland worked as a welder with Butters Brothers, Craigneuk and then spent 28 years with British Steel Corporation at the Clyde Alloy plant. He has been a member of the Labour Party for over 30 years, holding numerous branch and CLP positions. He was elected to the former [[Motherwell District Council]] in 1992, and served on Planning, Leisure Services, Environmental Health, Staffing, and Policy and Resources Committees. Prior to his election as an MSP, he was Convener of [[North Lanarkshire Council]] Finance Committee, he was also finance spokesperson for the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities from 2002 till 2007.<ref>[http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/johnpentland Scottish Labour Party biographical note] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506143230/http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/johnpentland |date=2011-05-06 }}</ref>
John Pentland was elected to the Scottish Parliament in the [[Scottish elections in May 2011|election of 5 May 2011]].
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==External links== * {{SP-MSP}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120205212840/http://johnpentland.org/ johnpentland.org] John Pentland (personal website)
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