John H. Stringfellow (November 14, 1819 – July 24, 1905) was an early physician of Kansas, one of the founders of Atchison, and speaker of the house in the first territorial legislature, the pro-slavery Bogus Legislature.
He was born in Culpeper County, Virginia, son of Robert Stringfellow, a farmer, veteran of the War of 1812, merchant at Raccoon Ford on the Rapidan River, and Mary Plunkett, daughter of an early industrialist in Orange County, Virginia.
He was the founder and editor of the pro-slavery Squatter Sovereign, the first newspaper in Atchison, and was commissioned colonel of the Third regiment of the territorial militia by Gov.
He was called to Virginia by the death of his father in 1858 and was detained there until after the opening of the Civil War.
He entered the Confederate service as captain of a Virginia company, but was at once detailed as surgeon and acted in that capacity only.