August E. Henning (January 14, 1887 – 1970) was a civil engineer and businessman who was a member of the Los Angeles City Council between 1929 and 1933, disbursement officer for the California State Emergency Relief Administration from 1934 to 1937 and chief of the Park Division, California Department of Natural Resources, after 1937.

He was then variously a civil engineer, real estate and insurance man and industrial banker in the Pacific Northwest.

[3][6] He was a member of a committee that went to Washington, D.C., to lobby the federal government for a $7 million appropriation for a breakwater extension in the harbor.

During his council service he was noted for taking the Pacific Electric Red Car to his office in the City Hall.

[7] In January 1930, Henning and seven other council members who had voted in favor of granting a rock-crushing permit in the Santa Monica Mountains were unsuccessfully targeted for recall on the grounds that the eight have conspired with .

Day, all multi-millionaires, to grant this group a special spot zoning permit to crush and ship .

[10] Henning was a candidate for Congress on the Republican ticket in 1932 but was defeated by Democrat Charles J. Colden,[11] who had preceded him as 15th District City Council member in 1925–29.

[3] In 1931 he was described as: Not a large man physically, dapper and a neat dresser, Henning, although aggressive, has a pleasing personality.