John Simpson Savage (October 30, 1841 – November 24, 1884) was an Ohio school teacher, attorney, and member of the United States House of Representatives for one term from 1875 to 1877.
John was educated in the local public schools and in 1853 relocated to Clinton County, Ohio where he took up his father’s early vocation.
During his five years of teaching, he devoted his spare time to the study of law and, in 1865, he was admitted to the Ohio bar.
Ohio's third congressional district was overwhelmingly Republican, yet Savage defeated his incumbent opponent John Q. Smith by 1,162 votes.
At the succeeding congressional election in 1876, he was narrowly defeated by Mills Gardner, who also served a single term.