David Jackson Bailey (11 March 1812-14 June 1897) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-GA 3) from 4 March 1851 to 3 March 1855, succeeding Allen F. Owen and preceding Robert Pleasant Trippe. Born in Lexington, he moved to Jackson in 1829 and practiced law. He served in the Second Seminole War and the Creek War of 1836, in the state house in 1835 and 1847, in the state senate in 1838, 1849, 1850, 1855, and 1856, in Congress, as a secession convention delegate in 1861, and as colonel of the Confederate 30th Georgia Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.