James Porter Fry (1880 – 7 February 1948) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
he was educated at West End State School and in World War I he joined the AIF with at first, the 3rd Infantry Battalion where he was a member of the Special Tropical Corps in November 1914 and later the 9th Battalion where he was stationed in France.
He married Sarah Chegwin (died 1957) in 1902[2] and they had one son[3] and one daughter.
Fry died in February 1948 at Redcliffe[1][4] and was buried in the Toowong Cemetery.
[5] Fry held the seat of Kurilpa, first for the National then later the Queensland United Party and the Country and Progressive National Party in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1918[1] until his defeat by Labor's Patrick Copley in 1932.