), commonly known as J. T. Shuften, was an American newspaper editor, journalist, and lawyer.

He founded the Colored American newspaper in Macon, Georgia, active from 1865 to 1866.

[3] John Thomas Shuften was born in about 1840 in Augusta, Georgia.

About a year later it was acquired by the Georgia Equal Rights Association and became the Loyal Georgian.

[4] In 1877, Shuften wrote an exposé on the political changes after emancipation in the American South, and "the great betrayal of the Republican party"; the article was titled, "A Colored Man's Exposition of the Acts and Doings of the Radical Party South from 1865 to 1876".