John Dunning Stivers (August 30, 1861 in Middletown, Orange County, New York – February 24, 1935 in Middletown, Orange Co., NY) was an American newspaper publisher and politician from New York.
On April 29, 1891, he began publishing with his brother Lewis S. Stivers a new Republican newspaper in Middletown: the Daily Times.
In 1897, he was appointed as a Trustee of the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital.
Stivers was a member of the New York State Assembly (Orange Co., 2nd D.) in 1910, 1911 and 1912; and was Chairman of the Committee on Public Printing in 1912.
He was found dead at his desk in his newspaper office early on the morning of February 24, 1935, in Middletown, Orange County, New York; and was buried at the Hillside Cemetery there.