John Scott Harrison (October 4, 1804 – May 25, 1878) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from 1853 to 1857.

He was one of ten children born to then Governor of the Indiana Territory, and future President, William Henry Harrison and his wife, Anna Tuthill Symmes.

At that time it was common practice for graves to be robbed for recently deceased bodies for use in teaching dissection and anatomy at medical colleges.

[9] The day of Harrison's funeral it was discovered that the body of Augustus Devin, which had been buried the previous week in an adjoining grave, had been stolen.

[10] The outrage over the act, amid changing sensibilities regarding death, contributed materially to passage of the Ohio Anatomy Law of 1881, a landmark statute, whereby medical schools were provided with unclaimed bodies, which in turn discouraged grave robbers by removing their primary market.

The end result and decision in the three civil suits brought has been lost in the passage of time, and no documentation is known to exist with this specific information.