John Miller Faison (April 17, 1862 – April 21, 1915) was a United States Representative from North Carolina.
He attended Faison Male Academy, and was graduated from Davidson College, North Carolina, in 1883; studied medicine at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; completed a postgraduate medical course at New York Polyclinic in 1885, and commenced practice at Faison, N.C., the same year; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State and county Democratic executive committee 1898-1906; member of the North Carolina Jamestown Exposition Commission; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for reelection in 1914.
He died from a gunshot wound under mysterious circumstances in Faison, N.C., April 21, 1915.
Faison was one of five candidates for the Democratic nomination in 1910, including the incumbent, Charles R. Thomas.
[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress