James Hammond Tillman (June 27, 1869 – April 1, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from South Carolina.

Born in Edgefield County, he received his education in the Curryton Academy; the Virginia Military Institute; the Emerson Institute of Washington, D.C., and the Georgetown University Law School.

In 1903 he fatally shot journalist Narciso Gener Gonzales, co-founder of Columbia newspaper The State, and was acquitted of murder in a trial that gained national coverage.

[2] It is believed that had he not murdered Gonzales, Tillman would have led the political movement which Coleman Livingston Blease inherited from him.

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