James Davidson Tillman (November 25, 1841 – June 16, 1916)[1] was a colonel during the American Civil War, Tennessee State Senator and US Minister to Ecuador.
Among his brothers was Samuel Escue Tillman, a West Point graduate and long time professor there, who served as Superintendent during World War I.
He completed his law degree at Cumberland University on the eve of the Civil War.
After the war he served terms as a Tennessee State Senator before being appointed by President Grover Cleveland as the US Minister to Ecuador from 1895 to 1897.
[2] He is interred at the Rose Hill Cemetery in Fayetteville, TN.