James Densmore (February 3, 1820 – September 16, 1889) was an American businessman and inventor.

He was a business associate of Christopher Sholes, who along with Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule helped contribute to inventing one of the first practical typewriters at a machine shop located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

[2] It was believed that Densmore had suggested splitting up commonly used letter combinations in order to solve a jamming problem, but this called into question.

[5] Densmore also supported women's suffrage in Wisconsin.

[6] When he was the editor of the Oshkosh True Democrat the paper publicly supported women's right to vote.