James Brown (born 1897, date of death unknown) was a Unionist politician and journalist in Northern Ireland.
Brown stood as an independent Farmers and New Industries candidate in South Down at the 1938 Northern Ireland general election.
[1] At the 1945 Northern Ireland general election, Brown contested Mourne as an independent Unionist, but was defeated by the Nationalist Party candidate James McSparran.
[2] Brown's final political contest was in South Down at the 1958 Northern Ireland general election.
For the first time, he stood as an official Ulster Unionist Party candidate, but he was not able to regain the seat.