J. Irving Burns

James Irving Burns (August 10, 1843 Biddeford, York County, Maine – December 17, 1925) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

The family removed to Yonkers, New York, in the 1850s.

He was secretary and treasurer of Rutgers Female College (located on Fifth Avenue in New York City) for seven years; and superintendent of Bonded Warehouses of the Port of New York from 1874 to 1884.

Then he became manager of the Knickerbocker Subscription Agency, and president of the Spring Creek and Rockerville Water and Mining Company of South Dakota.

He was an alderman of Yonkers in 1883 and 1884; and a member of the New York State Assembly (Westchester Co., 1st D.) in 1887, 1888, 1890 and 1895.