John Rufus Edie (January 14, 1814 – August 27, 1888) was an Opposition Party and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and a United States Army officer in the American Civil War.

Edie studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Somerset, Pennsylvania.

His son, John R. Edie Junior, was an 1861 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Edie was commissioned a major of the 15th Infantry Regiment on May 14, 1861; and commanded its field detachment that served in the western theater.

Colonel Edie then resumed the practice of law in Somerset and died there in 1888, being interred in the local Union Cemetery.