James Chamberlain Crawford (1880–1950) was an American entomologist.
[1][2] In 1904, Crawford joined the Bureau of Entomology as a research specialists, in the United States Department of Agriculture.
He left the North Carolina Department in 1930, and returned to the Bureau of Entomology and stayed there until his retirement.
[2] He continued in this position until 1917, and specialized in the taxonomy of Hymenoptera.
From 1921 until 1930, he studied the Mexican bean beetle, in Black Mountain, North Carolina.