John Morgan Bright (January 20, 1817 – October 2, 1911) was an American politician that served as an U.S. Representative from Tennessee.

In March 1841 he graduated from the law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky.

While in the Legislature he introduced and passed the bill providing for the construction of Tenn., Asylum for the Insane.

[3] Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second for the fourth district of Tennessee, Bright was re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses.

[5][6] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress