| John Rader | |
| State House1: | Alaska |
| District1: | 10th |
| Term Start1: | January 26, 1959 |
| Term End1: | April 27, 1959 |
| Predecessor1: | Office established |
| Successor1: | Blanche L. McSmith |
| Office2: | 1st Attorney General of Alaska |
| Governor2: | William Egan |
| Term Start2: | 1959 |
| Term End2: | 1960 |
| Predecessor2: | J. Gerald Williams (as territorial attorney general) |
| Successor2: | Ralph E. Moody |
| State House3: | Alaska |
| District3: | 8th |
| Term Start3: | January 28, 1963 |
| Term End3: | January 23, 1967 |
| Predecessor3: | Redistricted |
| Successor3: | Multi-member district |
| State Senate4: | Alaska |
| District4: | J |
| Prior Term4: | (E district 1969–1975) |
| Term Start4: | January 27, 1969 |
| Term End4: | January 15, 1979 |
| Predecessor4: | Multi-member district |
| Successor4: | Ed Dankworth |
| Office5: | President of the Alaska Senate |
| Term Start5: | January 10, 1977 |
| Term End5: | January 15, 1979 |
| Predecessor5: | Chancy Croft |
| Successor5: | Clem Tillion |
| Birth Name: | John Lafayette Rader |
| Birth Date: | 11 February 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Howard, Kansas |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Alma Mater: | University of Kansas (BS, JD) |
John Lafayette Rader (born February 11, 1927) is an American Democratic politician, who served as the first Attorney General of Alaska. He was a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from 1959 to 1960 and 1963-1966 and the Senate from 1969 to 1979. He was the Senate president from 1977 to 1979.[1] [2]
He was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1968, losing the Democratic primary to Nick Begich.[3] Begich would go on to lose to incumbent Howard Wallace Pollock.