James Henry Brady (June 12, 1862 – January 13, 1918) was an American Republican politician from the U.S. state of Idaho.

[5] Elected governor in 1908, Brady lost his bid for re-election in 1910, and returned to the private sector until he was elected to the U.S. Senate in January 1913, chosen by the Idaho Legislature to replace Kirtland Perky, who was appointed after Weldon Heyburn's death in October 1912.

In 1914, Brady became the first elected to the Senate from Idaho by direct popular vote, defeating former Democratic governor James H. Hawley and a handful of minor party candidates.

[6] Idaho's senior senator, William Borah, went before the voters for the first time four years later in 1918, and was easily re-elected to a third term.

[1][2][7] He was cremated and his ashes deposited in the James H. Brady Memorial Chapel of Mountain View Cemetery in Pocatello.