John D. Webster (died December 27, 1887) was a state legislator, government official, and lawyer in Mississippi.
He was a candidate for Louisiana Superintendent of Education but lost the Republican nomination to Thomas W. Cardozo.
He studied law and was admitted to the Mississippi bar in the late 1870s.
[2] During the American Civil War he served in the 54th Massachusetts regiment and was a "quarter-master sergeant".
[4] In 1877 he was one of the candidates seeking Democratic Party nomination for Mississippi Secretary of State.