James Alexander Smith (August 22, 1911 – March 29, 1993) was a teacher and politician.
A member of the Social Credit Party of Canada, Smith first ran for the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election held in the electoral district of Battle River—Camrose.
He defeated Liberal candidate Mac Smith by fewer than 400 votes; former Member of Parliament William Irvine, of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, came in third.
In the 1958 election, he lost his seat to Progressive Conservative candidate Clifford Smallwood, whom Smith had defeated the year before, in the context of a total electoral wipeout for Social Credit.
Smith ran in the electoral district of Peace River in the 1963 and 1965 elections.