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William Jasper Blackburn (July 24 1820 – November 10 1899) was an American printer and publisher who served in the United States House of Representatives from northwestern Louisiana from July 18 1868 to March 3 1869. A Republican during Reconstruction he was thereafter a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1874 to 1878.Blackburn was born on the Fourche de Mau in Randolph County in northeastern Arkansas. He received his early education from his mother.

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