Jesse Freeman Boulden (October 8, 1820 – March 6, 1899) was a Baptist pastor and politician in Chicago and Mississippi.

He also helped manage the Senate campaigns of Hiram Rhodes Revels and Blanche Kelso Bruce.

When his brother approached the age of 21, he fled to Pennsylvania with the help of the white children of his master to avoid being sold further South.

Andrew was accused of aiding his son, and himself fled Delaware with the rest of his family to avoid persecution.

In February 1864, Boulden attended the Wood River Baptist Association meeting at Brooklyn, Illinois and advocated for increased Baptist missionary work among slaves freed behind the advance of the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

[citation needed] In Mississippi, he was a trustee of the State Normal School and of Alcorn University.

In the late 1880s, he served as general agent of the American Baptist Home Mission Society for the State of New York assigned to Mississippi.