Edgar Jacob Herschler (October 27, 1918 – February 5, 1990) was an American politician and attorney who served as the 28th governor of Wyoming from 1975 to 1987.

[5] On June 15, 1960, he filed to run for the Democratic nomination for one of Lincoln County's three seats in the Wyoming House of Representatives and won in the general election.

[13] On April 27, 1970, he announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination for Wyoming's at-large congressional district, but was defeated by former Representative Teno Roncalio who went on to win in the general election.

[16] On May 23, 1974, he announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for governor and defeated former state senator Dick Jones in the general election.

After leaving office, he returned to practicing law in Cheyenne, and in 1988, multiple people attempted to convince him to run in the Senate election against Malcolm Wallop, but he chose not to.

[23] His successor as governor, Mike Sullivan, supported cigarette tax hikes and smoking bans and was added to Phillip Morris' list of smokers' enemies and in May 1988 Herschler criticized him for it and suggested that municipalities that ban smoking should not be given money from cigarette tax revenues.