John David Herbert (September 8, 1930 – March 27, 2017)[1] was an American lawyer who served two terms as the 40th Ohio State Treasurer from 1963 to 1971.
In 1970, Herbert won the Republican nomination for Ohio Attorney General, but lost because of his connections to the "Crofters" scandal in which Republicans were accused of steering state investments to campaign contributors.
The scandal brought down nearly the entire Republican ticket in 1970 and helped to elect John J. Gilligan to a single term as governor.
Herbert worked in the office of the Ohio Attorney General as an assistant.
After he left the office of the Ohio State Treasurer, Herbert was corporate counsel to the Ace Doran Hauling and Rigging Company in Cincinnati.