David Browning Culberson (September 29, 1830 – May 7, 1900) was a Confederate soldier, a Democratic U.S. Representative from Texas and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

The 18th Infantry saw combat at Vicksburg in 1862–63, but Culberson's health deteriorated and he was assigned to Austin as Adjutant General of Texas.

He worked to obtain the acquittal for treason of the then 16-year-old William Jesse McDonald, then of Rusk County, the later Texas Ranger.

Culberson attended the Democratic state convention in 1868 and served as a presidential elector in the Presidential Election of 1872 pledged to Horace Greeley (who died before Texas' electoral votes could be cast) but casting his ballot ultimately for Benjamin Gratz Brown.

[3] He was appointed by President William McKinley on June 21, 1897, as one of the commissioners to codify the laws of the United States and served in this capacity until his death in Jefferson, Texas on May 7, 1900.