John Henry Buschemeyer (February 24, 1869 – October 7, 1935) was mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1913 to 1917.

[1] He graduated from Louisville Male High School then earned a M.D.

Buschemeyer's administration quickly became bogged down in the racial issues of the time, signing a 1914 ordinances to bar blacks from living in white neighborhoods, and vice versa.

The case, Buchanan v. Warley, went to the Supreme Court, which ruled the ordinance unconstitutional.

He was voted out of office in 1917, and was the last of the machine-era Democrat mayors of Louisville.