James Michael Beerworth (22 April 1884 – 11 March 1959) was a South Australian Labor Party politician.
[1] Beerworth joined the South Australian Police force in 1911, serving until 1925, when bought the Pastoral Hotel in Port Augusta in 1925.
At the following election, in 1938, he and Charles Leonard Davis were Labor candidates for the Northern district seat on the Legislative Council, but were beaten by Liberal and Country League (LCL) candidates Lyell McEwin and George Ritchie.
Another seat in the same district became vacant when H. G. Hawkins died in 1939, and Beerworth won the resulting by-election.
[4] James' brother, Fred Beerworth, was a federal Senator for South Australia from 1946 to 1951.