John Edward Reinhardt (March 8, 1920 – February 18, 2016) was an American ambassador and diplomat.

He was the first career diplomat to head the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) and the first Black Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.

[2] His regiment was sent to Italy with the 92nd Infantry Division, but Reinhardt was selected to attend Officer Candidate School instead.

[2] He was sent to the Dutch East Indies to prepare for a projected invasion of Japan, but the war was largely over by this time.

[6] Reinhardt said that the hardest part of his tour in Nigeria was justifying the U.S. import of chrome from the white separatist state of Rhodesia.

[10] On June 16, 2004 he joined a group of twenty-seven called Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change opposing the Iraq War.