John Edward Hutton (March 28, 1828 – December 28, 1893) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
Born in Polk County, Tennessee, Hutton moved with his parents to Troy, Missouri, in 1831.
He attended lectures at Pope's Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri.
During the Civil War he entered the Union Army and was commissioned colonel of the Fifty-ninth Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Infantry.
He moved to Mexico, Missouri, in 1865 and continued to practice law until 1873, when he became the owner and publisher of the Intelligencer, a Democratic newspaper.