James Joseph Kenneally (15 May 1879 – 9 October 1954) was an Australian politician, railwayman and unionist from Sydney.
Educated by the Christian Brothers, he moved to Western Australia in 1899 where he became a locomotive cleaner and then engine-driver.
He was president of the West Australian Locomotive Engine-drivers', Firemen's and Cleaners' Union of Workers in 1914 and was secretary in 1919.
He was a member for East Perth in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1927 to 1936, representing the Labor Party.
He served as federal president of the party[1] in the 1930s, during a time when a far-left faction from New South Wales[2] was battling its Jack Lang-led right-wing representatives in the ALP.