Ernest Hurst Cherrington (November 24, 1877 – March 13, 1950) was a leading temperance journalist.

He edited and contributed to the writing of The Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem, a comprehensive six-volume work.

Cherrington favored education over the coercive use of force to bring about Prohibition and sobriety, a position in direct opposition to that of Anti-Saloon leader Wayne Wheeler.

[1] Cherrington was against the consumption of alcohol and the effects it had on the declining mortality of his fellow Americans.

[1] In 1901, Cherrington joined the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, who was the leading organization lobbying the prohibition in the United States in the early 20th century.