John Thilman Hendrick (November 12, 1878 – November 12, 1944) was a businessman and the 13th president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia; he served from late 1920 to March 1921 during the end of the Wilson Administration.

Hendrick was born in Clarksville, Tennessee, in 1878, the son of David Stewart Hendrick and a distant descendant of Jonathan Edwards, one of the first presidents of Princeton University.

He eventually became general manager of the central eastern division of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company and served as the director of several large banks.

[2] President Woodrow Wilson appointed him to finish he term of Louis Brownlow, who left to become manager of Petersburg, Virginia, on the D.C. Board of Commissioners.

[2] After leaving office, he became Chairman of the Board of the Lanston Monotype Company and was a senior partner in the W.B.