James Pinckney Scales (1830/31 – 1866) was a lawyer and state legislator in Mississippi.
[4][5][6] He served as an officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War alongside many of his brothers, including Colonel Alfred Scales.
[2] In September 1858 he received the Democratic nomination to fill a vacancy for Carroll County in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
[9][15] Scales died in 1866 and was buried on April 2, 1866, in Evergreen Cemetery.
[2][16] He remarried before his death, and his second wife survived him alongside two children.