- Father of Linda Henning, on whom he partially based the The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) character Elly May Clampett.
- Was once advised by president Harry S. Truman to study to become a lawyer.
- Attended William Chrisman High School in Independence, MO, where President Harry S. Truman graduated in 1901.
- The Ruth and Paul Henning Conservation area and the Ruth and Paul Henning State Forest are located near Branson, MO.
- Ex-father-in-law of Mike Minor.
- Father-in-law of Ashby Adams.
- Profiled in "The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and TV's Golden Age" by Jordan Young (BearManor Media).
- Although he did attend the Kansas City School of Law, his ambition was to be a singer on the radio. When the local radio station KMBZ (KMBC at the time) had no money for writers to create the "filler" between songs, he became a writer as well as a singer.
- Ruth Henning often told her husband Paul about how her female cousins and she often visited her grandparents at the tiny hotel they owned near the Rock Island railroad station located in Eldon, Missouri. This later became the concept for Petticoat Junction.
- Author Kurt Andersen described Henning as "the Eli Whitney of American television production.".
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