John Wise (August 15, 1652 – April 8, 1725) was a Congregationalist reverend and political leader in Massachusetts during the American colonial period.
After graduating from Harvard in 1673, he began studying theology, and preached in Branford, Connecticut and Hatfield, Massachusetts.
In 1688, Wise led Ipswich citizens in a protest against royal governor Edmund Andros and colonial taxation,[1][3] after the revocation of the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1684 which was superseded by the Dominion of New England.
When in 1687 Wise rallied his parishioners to protest and resist taxation, Andros had him arrested, convicted and fined.
Liberty ship SS John Wise, launched on June 14, 1942 and scrapped in 1971, was also named after him.