John Houston Savage (October 9, 1815 – April 5, 1904) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 4th congressional district of Tennessee.

After serving as a colonel of the state militia, Savage was the Attorney General of the fourth district of Tennessee from 1841 to 1847.

[1] Savage was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, but he declined to be a candidate for re-election.

[2] Serving as a colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment Tennessee Infantry in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, Savage was wounded at Perryville and again at Stones River in 1862.

Savage died in McMinnville, Tennessee on April 5, 1904 (age 88 years, 179 days), and is interred at Riverside Cemetery.