James Jefferson Britt (March 4, 1861 – December 26, 1939) was an American educator and politician who served one term as a United States representative in Congress from North Carolina from 1915 to 1917.

James Jefferson Britt was born near Johnson City, Tennessee, in present-day Unicoi County on March 4, 1861.

He studied law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was admitted to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Asheville.

Britt became a member of the North Carolina Senate from 1909 to 1911, he was part of the special counsel to the Post Office Department from July 1, 1909, to December 1, 1910.

The 1916 election to the Sixty-fifth Congress was an extremely close race, which he initially lost by only 8 votes to Democrat Zebulon Weaver.