James Andrew Haley (January 4, 1899 – August 6, 1981) was an American World War I veteran who served 12 terms as a U.S. representative from Florida from 1953 to 1977.

[1] During the subsequent trial, he and five other circus officials pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and were sentenced to prison.

Haley was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1977), during which time he was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs located in Tampa is named James A. Haley VA Medical Center after him.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress