Morris Jackson

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Morris Jackson

| image name = File:M. M. Jackson - Senate District - 21st Ohio Senate 112th General Assemby 1977-1978 - DPLA - e9414839d7ad388bfa2619d70cf07f58 (page 8) (cropped).jpg

| state_senate = Ohio

| state = Ohio

| district = 21st

| term = January 3, 1967 – March 17, 1984

| preceded = Districts Created

| succeeded = Michael R. White

| party = Democratic

| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|4|1}}

| birth_place = Araba, Georgia{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYk8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22M.+Morris+Jackson%22|title=Local Leadership in Black Communities: Organizational and Electoral Developments in Cleveland in the Nineteen Sixties|last1=Chatterjee|first1=Pranab|last2=Wolford|first2=Louise|year=1975}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|12|12|1918|4|1}}

| death_place = Cleveland, Ohio|

}}

M. Morrison Jackson (April 1, 1918 – December 12, 2004) was a member of the Ohio Senate.

A native of Cleveland, Jackson served in the state Senate from 1967 to 1984. The most senior African American Senator at his time, he held a number of leadership roles during his time. In 1982, upon the Senate's switch to a Democratic majority, Jackson was involved in a Republican coup in which he was promised the position of Senate President if he switched party affiliations. Ultimately, however, he remained with Democrats, and Harry Meshel became the next Senate leader.{{cite book

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7hkbUXIQdwC&q=%22theodore+m+gray%22+ohio+senator&pg=PA135

|title=Ohio politics

|isbn= 0-87338-509-8

|author=Alexander P. Lamis , Mary Anne Sharkey

|year=1994

}}

He retired in 1984, and was succeeded by future Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White.