James Lent (1782 – February 22, 1833) was an American politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1829 to 1833.
Lent was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, until his death in Washington, D.C., February 22, 1833.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Twenty-second Congress).
He was reinterred in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Newtown, Long Island, New York.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress