John Houstoun (/ˈhoʊstən/ HOU-stən; August 31, 1744 – July 20, 1796) was an American lawyer and statesman from Savannah, Georgia.

[1] John was born to aristocratic Scots immigrants in St. George's Parish, near modern Waynesboro and the eastern border of Georgia.

In Congress, he was a strong supporter of the movement toward independence, but resisted the non-importation agreements because of their negative effects on the southern colonies.

That same year, he took charge of the Georgia militia in an abortive attempt to seize the British post of St. Augustine, Florida.

The "daily depredations" of these raiding groups, Governor Houstoun wrote, "almost at our very Town-Gates, threaten us with certain ruin unless some remedy is applied.

Houstoun returned home, taking a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives, where he briefly served as Speaker in 1783.

"Formerly when the people of Pensacola and Mobile were one and the same with Us, we did not carry on trade with you from this Country, and then there was no Occasion to ask a Path thro’ the Creek Nation.

On September 28, 1784, Governor John Houstoun granted four 5000 acre tracts of vacant land in Franklin county, Georgia to French Vice Admiral d'Estaing and his heirs.