title: Honest John
text: # Honest John
  
  Honest John may refer to:
  
  ## Politicians
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * John Battersby, councillor in Glasgow and trade union leader
  * John Bowen (alderman), High Sheriff of Worcestershire
  * John Fielden, British politician
  * Mad Jack Fuller, British politician who preferred to be known as "Honest John" Fuller
  * John Lilburne (1614 – 1657), English Leveller during the English Civil Wars
  
  ### United States
  
  * John Davis (Massachusetts governor)
  * John H. Farley, Mayor of Cleveland
  * John Hart (New Jersey politician)
  * John Hunn (governor), Governor of Delaware
  * John Kelly (New York politician), Tammany Hall politician
  * John Letcher, Governor of Virginia
  * John Moore (Illinois), Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois
  * John J. Patterson (1830–1912) United States senator from South Carolina
  * John Holbrook Powers, Nebraska politician
  * John F. Shafroth, Governor of Colorado
  * John Sparks (Nevada politician)
  * John Walsh (Dakota politician)
  * John Whiteaker, Governor of Oregon
  * John J. Williams (senator)
  
  ### Elsewhere
  
  * John Martin (Young Irelander), Irish politician
  * John Tonkin, Australian politician
  * John White (New Zealand politician)
  
  ## Athletes
  
  * John Anderson (outfielder), baseball player
  * John Barham Day, jockey
  * John Clapp (baseball), baseball player
  * John Eubank, baseball player
  * John Gaffney, baseball umpire
  * John Kelly, baseball player nicknamed "Kick Kelly" and "Honest John"
  * John McCloskey (baseball manager)
  * John McKenna, rugby player
  * John Morrill, baseball player
  * John A. Warren, football player
  * John Katan, wrestler
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * "Honest John" Worthington Foulfellow, a character in Disney's 1940 film Pinocchio
  * a character in the 1986 An American Tail
  * a character in Marvel Comics' S-Men
  * a character in Belle of the Yukon
  * the protagonist of an 1875 novel by John William De Forest
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Honest John Plain, guitarist with The Boys
  * the MGR-1 Honest John, a nuclear-capable missile
  * John Philip Wood, Scots historian
  * John Brown Russwurm, abolitionist
  * John Crocker, officer in the British Army
  * John Roberts, 18th-century Irish architect
  * John Stephenson (coachbuilder)
  * a 1959 single produced by Felton Jarvis
  * Honest Jon's, a record store
  * "Honest John", a type of open bar where patrons serve themselves and leave payment in a jar or drawer, on the honor system.
  