John Willock Noble (October 26, 1831 – March 22, 1912) was a U.S. lawyer and brevet brigadier general in the Civil War.

[2] Noble settled in St. Louis in 1855,[2][3] and the next year moved to Keokuk, Iowa to look for better prospects[2] n the practice of his profession.

[3] After the outbreak of the American Civil War Noble was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment in September 1861.

At the war's end he received a brevet (honorary promotion) to brigadier general and was mustered out of service in August 1865.

He settled in St. Louis, Missouri[1][3] after the Civil War, and was recommended by Stanberry to be US District Attorney.

Under his watch as Secretary of the Interior, the Cherokee Commission negotiated eleven agreements that removed nineteen indigenous tribes to small allotments in the Oklahoma Territory, while opening the land to homesteaders.