Facts: - successor: tom harris - party: labour - predecessor: teddy taylor - office: member of parliament for glasgow cathcart - term end: 7 june 2001 - term start: 3 may 1979 - birth date: 5 may 1936 - name: the lord maxton - nationality: british Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john maxton .
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john alston maxton , baron maxton -lrb- born 5 may 1936 -rrb- is a scottish labour party politician .from 1979 to 2001 he was a backbench member of parliament -lrb- mp -rrb- in the british house of commons .he is a nephew of the former independent labour party leader and world war i conscientious objector , james maxton .his father , also john maxton , was also a conscientious objector in world war i , and the younger john maxton was himself a conscientious objector 1955-57 , working on building sites and in farming .