John H. Willis was a politician from Arizona who served in the 1st Arizona State Legislature.^[1]

Willis lived in Snowflake, Arizona, and in 1892 was nominated by the Republicans for probate judge of Apache County, which contained Snowflake at that time.^[2] He was a cattle rancher.^[3] Willis married Carrie Haynes on November 26, 1891.^[4]

In 1894, Willis was elected to the Apache County Board of Supervisors.^[5] After Navajo County was split from Apache County in 1895, Willis was appointed to serve on the Board of Supervisors of the newly created county.^[6] In 1896, when the first election was held, Willis was nominated by the Republicans to serve on the board of supervisors of the new county.^[7] The following year, he was selected to serve as the president of that body.^[8] In November 1897, Willis resigned from the board of supervisors in order to go on his two-year LDS mission to the Southern States.^[9][10]

Upon return from his mission in 1900, the Republicans nominated Willis once again for the board of supervisors.^[11] In the November general election he came in second, slightly in front of Democrat John Hunt, 259–254, giving him one of the two supervisor positions.^[12] He was again nominated by the Republicans in 1902 for the board of supervisors,^[13] however in the general election he came in third, behind Democrat R. C. Creswell, and his fellow Republican F. F. Flickinger. Creswell received 326 votes, Flickinger 305, and Willis 287.^[14] In 1908 he won the Republican nomination to run for the territorial house of representatives, but lost in the general election to Democrat Joseph Peterson, 445–238.^[15][16]

1911 saw Willis nominated for the house of representatives by the Republicans, but this was for the state, not territorial house.^[17] Unlike the 1908 election, Willis defeated his Democratic opponent, William Morgan, 398–327.^[18] Willis did not run for re-election in 1914.^[19]