John Elijah Proctor[1] (January 14, 1844 – December 14, 1944) was an American politician in the state of Florida.

A former slave, he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1873 to 1875, and 1879 to 1881, and in the Florida Senate from 1883 to 1885.

[2] Though he was born free, he was sold into slavery at a young age to family friends to pay off debts that his father had incurred purchasing an enslaved woman who became his wife.

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