John Carey (April 5, 1792 – March 17, 1875) was an American jurist who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio for one term from 1859 to 1861.

[1] Promoter and first president of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, from Sandusky to Dayton, about 1845.

He was reinterred in 1919 in Spring Grove Cemetery, Carey, Ohio.

[3] He married Dorcas Wilcox (1790–1867), of Worthington, Ohio, on January 9, 1817.

[6] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress