James Belton

James Belton (1855 – 12 June 1935) was an Australian politician.

In 1909 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Labor member for Darwin.

He was a minister from 1914 to 1916, but resigned to run (unsuccessfully) for the Senate in 1917.

He was re-elected in a by-election in July of that year and served until his defeat in 1931.

This article about an Australian Labor Party politician is a stub.