James Abercrombie Burden III (July 10, 1897 – May 5, 1979) was an American soldier, businessman and bridge player.

Burden was born on July 10, 1897, in Lenox, Massachusetts, but grew up in Manhattan, where the family lived at 7 East 91st Street in a home designed by Warren & Wetmore.

[7][8] After his father's death in 1932, his mother remarried in 1936 to Richard M. Tobin,[9] a banker who had been the American Minister to the Netherlands under President Calvin Coolidge.

[16][17] His niece, Adele Burden Lawrence, married the prominent writer Louis Stanton Auchincloss.

[26] She was a daughter of Judge David Harris Leake, who served as general attorney of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.