James Stone Chrisman (September 14, 1818 – July 29, 1881) was an antebellum United States Representative from Kentucky and then a member of the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.
Chrisman was born in Monticello, Kentucky, where he attended the common schools.
Chrisman was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1845 and 1847.
He unsuccessfully contested the election of William C. Anderson to the Thirty-sixth Congress, losing in a race that at one time was tied but at the time Congress started session was decided by 3 votes.
[1] During the Civil War, Chrisman served as a representative from Kentucky to the First and Second Confederate Congresses from 1862 to 1865.