James Birdsall (1783 – July 20, 1856) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.
Born in 1783 in New York State, Birdsall studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1806.
He married Rizpah Steere, and they had two sons and a daughter.
Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress, Birdsall was United States Representative for the fifteenth district of New York from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817.
Birdsall died in Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, on July 20, 1856 (age about 73 years).