Clingan Jackson (March 28, 1907 – May 26, 1997) was a Democratic politician and newspaperman from Ohio. Jackson was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1907, and was raised on the east side of the city and in towns on either side of the Ohio border with Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1929 from University of Colorado, where he majored in history and English. He returned to Ohio where he began work in September of that year as a reporter for the Youngstown Vindicator daily newspaper. He continued work as a reporter and editor for the newspaper until his retirement in 1983.