John Willard (May 20, 1792 Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut – August 31, 1862 Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1817, and commenced practice in Salem, Washington County, New York.
They were the parents of a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (Willard) Fowler (1830–1852).
At the New York state election, 1855, he ran on the Hard Democratic ticket for a seat on the Court of Appeals, but was defeated by George F. Comstock, the Know Nothing candidate.
Willard was Permanent Chairman of the Douglas Democratic state convention of 1860; and a member of the New York State Senate (15th D.) in 1862.