Lieutenant Colonel[note 1] James Hanna McCormick, DSO (September 1875 – May 1955)[2][3] was a professional soldier and Ulster Unionist Party politician.

[4] McCormick served in the Boer War in the Imperial Yeomanry,[5] and later joined the 22nd Saskatchewan Light Horse of the Canadian militia.

[6] As the deputy sheriff of Saskatchewan, he raised a band of men at his own expense - the Corps of Western Canadian Cowboys, nicknamed "McCormick's Devils".

After the war, McCormick returned to Belfast to pursue a political career in the newly partitioned government of Northern Ireland.

In 1929, McCormick campaigned as the Ulster Unionist Party candidate for Belfast St Anne's in the Northern Ireland House of Commons.

He was nominated as an independent unionist candidate for Belfast West in the 1950 UK general election, but the seat was won by James Godfrey MacManaway of the UUP.