James Martin Smith (December 12, 1892 – May 24, 1970) was an American civic, business, and religious leader in Arizona.
The youngest Child of American frontiersman and Mormon Pioneer, Lot Smith, Smith was born in Tuba City, Arizona Territory, but spent most of his life in Central, Arizona.
James moved to Central after his father's death in a grazing conflict with Navajo Indians.
He was a publisher of the Arizona Journal, a short lived statewide newspaper.
He married Winnie Elizabeth Bigler in 1913 and was the father of nine children, eight sons and one daughter.