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This article is about the Lieutenant Governor of California. For mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia, see John Harmer.

John L. Harmer (born ca. 1934) is a former California politician who served in the California State Senate as a Republican from 1966-1974. He went on to serve briefly as the Lieutenant Governor of California from 1974 to 1975, after the resignation of Edwin Reinecke on October 4, 1974. Departing Governor Ronald Reagan appointed him to the post. He is now the vice president of Geely-USA, the American Division of the Chinese car maker Geely that along with Chery is one of the first Chinese automobile manufacturers to export to North American shores.

Harmer wrote the book Reagan: Man of Principal.^[1]

Harmer served as chairman of the Lighted Candle Society an organization opposed to pornography, and has filed briefs with the United States Supreme Court against pornography.

Harmer currently resides in Bountiful, Utah, with his wife Carolyn. Harmer is a Latter-day Saint.