James Caleb Boggs (May 15, 1909 – March 26, 1993) was an American lawyer and politician from Claymont, Delaware.

He lost re-election in 1972 to then–New Castle County councilman and future President of the United States Joe Biden.

[2] During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army with the 6th Armored Division fighting in Normandy, the Rhineland, the Ardennes, and central Europe.

He won the election a total of three times, also defeating Democrats J. Carl McGuigan in 1948, and Henry M. Winchester in 1950.

Senator J. Allen Frear Jr. by 1.4 percentage points, and becoming the only Republican to defeat an incumbent Democratic U.S.

Boggs was a reluctant candidate that year, being persuaded to run only to help avoid a divisive primary election.

[12] In his last years, Boggs lived in Wilmington, Delaware, where he continued to practice law until retiring in the early 1980s.