John Allen Borgman (December 6, 1866 - January 13, 1937) was a United States Postmaster of Jonesboro, Arkansas in the early 1900's. John was born in Attica, Indiana and was the son of Francis John Borgman and Frances Jane Beauchamp and had a twin brother named George M. who died of an illness at the age of eighteen. His father had served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, but since he deserted in 1862 from his West Virginia regiment he re-enlisted in Indiana under an assumed name, John Frank Dierker, because of this John's name during his early years was listed as Dierker until Frank was no longer worried of arrest.

His father moved out to Arkansas while endevoring in the lumber trade and John went as well. He married a girl from Tennessee, Mary Owen Harris, the daughter of Thomas H. Harris a Confederate veteran. John had two children Herman Francis and Lola before his wife and daughter came down with tuberculosis. His wife died of the illness and a year later he married her younger sister Ida.

John was very active in politics and it was his being a Republican which led to his appointment as postmaster. He was also a Republican delegate. He was also a U. S. Marshal. His only surviving child Herman Borgman became a postal employee and moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1920.