John Andrew Cherberg (October 17, 1910 – April 8, 1992) was an American politician, football coach, teacher and television executive.

Born in Pensacola, Florida in 1910, Cherberg was the youngest of twelve children from a butcher father who emigrated from Croatia, then a part of Yugoslavia.

[8] The team was involved in a payoff scandal that led to NCAA sanctions for the school and the firing of Cherberg in February 1956.

[10] Capitalizing on name recognition from his football career and the statewide contacts he had developed as the head of the state's association of high school football coaches, he won the Democratic primary by defeating Howard S. Bargreen,[11] and the general election by defeating Republican Don McDermott.

For his first 15 years in office, he also worked as an account executive at Seattle-area TV station KIRO to supplement his then-low lieutenant governor salary.

[3] Cherberg ran for Mayor of Seattle in 1964, but was defeated by Republican councilman Dorm Braman by 95,699 votes to his 83,205.