Jack English Hightower (September 6, 1926 – August 3, 2013) was a former Democratic U.S. representative from Texas's 13th congressional district, serving five terms from 1975 to 1985.

Born in Memphis, the seat of Hall County in West Texas, Hightower was a United States Navy sailor for two years during World War II.

That fall, Humphrey narrowly carried Texas over the Republican Richard M. Nixon and the American Independent Party nominee George Wallace of Alabama.

Hightower was a fairly moderate Democrat, and served a district that was mostly rural, stretching from Amarillo to Wichita Falls on the east.

However, in 1984, he was toppled by Republican challenger Beau Boulter of Amarillo, who benefited from Ronald W. Reagan's massive reelection landslide that year.

He was later appointed by U.S. President Bill Clinton to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, a position which he held from August 9, 1999, to July 19, 2004.