John Dawson, Jr. was the sixteenth intendent (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina, serving two terms from 1806 to 1808.

Dawson was born in 1765 to John Dawson and Joanna Broughton Monck. In 1789, he married Mary Shubrick Huger, the daughter of John Huger, an earlier intendant for the city. He was elected intendant on September 8, 1806 and then re-elected September 14, 1807. He resigned and was replaced by Benjamin Boyd in July 1808. He simultaneously represented the Charleston area in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1800 to 1808. He died on June 3, 1823, and is buried at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul, Charleston, South Carolina.^[1]