| John Weir Troy | |
| Image Name: | John W Troy, editor of the Democrat Leader, Port Angeles, Washington, ca 1894 (PORTRAITS 629) (cropped).jpg |
| Caption: | Portrait of John W. Troy, mid-1890s. |
| Order: | 6th Governor of Alaska Territory |
| Lieutenant: | Bob Bartlett |
| Term Start: | April 19, 1933 |
| Term End: | December 6, 1939 |
| Nominator: | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Predecessor: | George Alexander Parks |
| Successor: | Ernest Gruening |
| Birth Date: | 31 October 1868 |
| Birth Place: | Dungeness, Washington, United States |
| Death Place: | Juneau, Alaska, United States |
| Profession: | Newspaper publisher and editor |
| Party: | Democratic |
John Weir Troy (October 31, 1868 — May 2, 1942) was an American Democratic politician who was the Governor of Alaska Territory from 1933 to 1939.[1] He was born in Dungeness, Washington and died in Juneau, Alaska.
John Troy began his professional career in journalism, starting as a newspaper reporter in Port Townsend, Washington, shortly after graduating from high school there. He would publish newspapers in Washington and Alaskabetween 1891 and 1914. He was the editor of Alaska-Yukon Magazine from 1911 to 1912. Following this, he was the editor of the Daily Alaskan Empire for twenty years before being appointed governor in 1933.
He was the father-in-law of George A. Lingo, who was the second husband of his younger daughter, Dorothy Minerva. At the time of their marriage, Lingo was a member of the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives and the board of trustees of the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines.