James Marion Farr (February 4, 1874 – March 4, 1958) was an American university professor and academic administrator.

Farr was a native of South Carolina, and earned bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees before beginning his career as a professor of English language and literature.

[2] He was the son of a Confederate infantry captain who had returned home from fighting in the Civil War to become a planter and banker.

Farr attended public and private schools until he entered the South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel) in 1889.

[14] Other faculty members thought the honor system was a good idea, and began to implement it in their own classes on an ad hoc basis.

[14] In 1914, the students requested the creation of a school-wide honor code, and university president Albert A. Murphree and the Florida Board of Control approved the concept in 1916.

[1] He served as the university's interim president until his permanent successor, John J. Tigert, assumed office in September 1928.

After retiring from the university's faculty because of illness in 1934, Farr and his wife moved to Jacksonville Beach, Florida.