James H. Southgate

James Haywood Southgate (July 12, 1859 – September 29, 1916), was an American spokesman for prohibition.

He was a Democrat and became president of the YMCA of North Carolina, as well as treasurer of the State Sunday School Association.

He later joined the Prohibition Party and became a member of the platform committee, which held hearings at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1892.

Although many of their supporters abandoned the ticket for Democrat William Jennings Bryan, Bentley and Southgate campaigned without anger or recrimination.

A civic leader in Durham, Southgate became a trustee of both Trinity College and Duke University in that city.