John Biggs was born and raised in Hitchcock, Okla. He attended Boys State and was a Future Farmers of America officer and senior class vice president. After graduating from Lomega High School, he enrolled at OSUIT and received the Outstanding Student award when he graduated in 1987. While in college, Biggs worked part time at SOO Trucking Co., in Okeene, Okla., as shop mechanic. He continued to work full time at SOO Trucking until February 1989. He had a short run as a field mechanic for Gas Compression Services Inc. in western Oklahoma after he was hired by a fellow OSUIT graduate, Paul Coleman.