John Lafayette Rader (born February 11, 1927) is an American Democratic politician, who served as the first Attorney General of Alaska.

He was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1959 to 1960 and 1963-1966 and the Senate from 1969 to 1979.

He was the Senate president from 1977 to 1979.

[1][2] He was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1968, losing the Democratic primary to Nick Begich.

[3] Begich would go on to lose to incumbent Howard Wallace Pollock.