Jackson B. Davis

{{Short description|American politician (1918–2016)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| office= Louisiana State Senator for Caddo and Bossier parishes (later District 37)

| party=Democratic Party

| term_start=1956

| term_end=1980

| preceded=Charles Emery Tooke Jr.
B. H. "Johnny" Rogers

| succeeded=Sydney B. Nelson

| birth_name=Jackson Beauregard Davis

| birth_date={{birth date|1918|03|27}}

| birth_place=Rapides Parish, Louisiana, U.S.

| death_date={{death date and age|2016|8|22|1918|3|27}}

| death_place=Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.

| resting_place=

| residence=Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.

| occupation=Lawyer

| spouse={{marriage|Rosemary Slattery Davis
|1944}}

| children=4

| parents=Jesse Octo
Litha Pittman Davis

| alma_mater=Louisiana College
Northwestern State University
Louisiana State University

| footnotes=(1) A Democrat, Davis repudiated U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 general election and instead supported Republican Barry Goldwater.

(2) Davis spent his entire United States Navy service (1941–1946) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

}}

Jackson Beauregard Davis Sr. (March 27, 1918 – August 22, 2016) was an American lawyer and politician based in Shreveport, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate from 1956 to 1980.{{cite web|url=http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/s1880-2008.pdf |title=Membership in the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2008 |publisher=legis.state.la.us |accessdate=September 6, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520034700/http://www.legis.state.la.us/members/s1880-2008.pdf |archivedate=May 20, 2011 }}