| John W. Howe | |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| District: | 22nd |
| Term Start: | March 4, 1849 |
| Term End: | March 3, 1853 |
| Preceded: | John Wilson Farrelly |
| Succeeded: | Thomas Marshall Howe |
| Birth Date: | 11 March 1801 |
| Birth Place: | District of Maine, Massachusetts |
| Death Place: | Rochester, New York |
| Party: | Free Soil Whig |
John W. Howe (March 11, 1801November 30, 1873) was a Free Soil and Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Howe was born in Massachusetts' District of Maine in 1801. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Smethport, Pennsylvania, and then to Franklin, Pennsylvania, in 1829 and commenced the practice of law. He also served as justice of the peace.
Howe was elected as a Free Soil candidate to the Thirty-first Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress. He moved to Meadville, Pennsylvania, and later to Rochester, New York, where he died in 1873. Interment in Greendale Cemetery in Meadville, Pennsylvania.