James Hoge Tyler (August 11, 1846 – January 3, 1925) was a Confederate soldier, writer and political figure.

His maternal grandparents took the boy 300 miles by carriage to their home, Hayfield, subsequently known as Belle Hampton, in Pulaski County, Virginia.

[16] The teenager soon joined his father in Caroline County (his paternal grandfather dying in the same year).

About 1862, when he reached the legal age of 16, J. H. Tyler enlisted in the Army of the Confederate States of America.

[citation needed] After Virginia's surrender to Union forces, Tyler returned to Pulaski County and tried to resume farming.

[18] In 1900 the Virginia legislature passed the state's first Jim Crow segregation statute, which Governor Tyler signed into law.

He also served on the boards of trustees of Hampden–Sydney College, the Union Theological Seminary and the Synodical Orphans Home at Lynchburg.

[26] His childhood home, Blenheim, also exists, and Caroline County officials believe it eligible for similar treatment, but its private owners have not yet chosen to apply for that status, which would entail development restrictions.