James Lawrence Owens (December 30, 1899 – September 27, 1960) was a politician from Alberta, Canada.
He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1955 until his death in 1960 as a member of the Social Credit caucus in government.
Owens first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1955 general election as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Didsbury.
He defeated Coalition candidate Ben Brown by a few hundred votes.
[3] Owens died of a heart attack on September 28, 1960, while still in office.