John Harold Fanning (September 19, 1916 — July 21, 1990) was an American lawyer and member of the National Labor Relations Board for a record 25 years (from 1957 to 1982).

[3] John Harold Fanning was born in Putnam, Connecticut, and graduated from Norwich Free Academy.

[1][2][4] In 1943, he joined the Department of War, where he served as Chief of the Domestic Labor Standards Section of the Industrial Personnel Division of the Army Service Forces.

[1][2][4][5] On December 20, 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower appointed Fanning as a Member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

[7] In a testament to his professionalism and bipartisanship, he was reappointed by Presidents Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Jimmy Carter.

"[7] His reappointment to the NLRB by President Nixon in 1972 for a fourth five-year term set a record at the time.

He joined the Providence, Rhode Island, law firm of Hinckley, Allen, Snyder & Comen, and worked part-time as counsel to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.