James Byron Reed (January 2, 1881 – April 27, 1935) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas' former 6th congressional district.
In 1906, he graduated from the law department of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and was admitted to the bar that same year.
Reed was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Lewis E. Sawyer.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1928, having been unseated by David Delano Glover, a lawyer from Malvern, Arkansas.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress