James Holmes Carson Jr. (February 14, 1935 – August 28, 2015) was an American lawyer and politician.

[1] He was appointed North Carolina Attorney General on August 26, 1974, by Governor James E. Holshouser, Jr. after Robert Burren Morgan resigned to devote his attention to a run for the U.S. Senate.

Carson then ran in a special election for Attorney General, which he lost to Democrat Rufus L. Edmisten.

He is the most recent Republican to serve as North Carolina's Attorney General.

This article about a North Carolina politician is a stub.