James Mason Hoppin (January 17, 1820 – November 15, 1906) was an American educator and writer.

James Mason Hoppin was born at Providence, Rhode Island on January 17, 1820.

[1] He graduated from Yale College in 1840 (where he was a member of Skull and Bones,[2]) from Harvard Law School in 1842, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1845.

He studied for some time abroad; and was pastor of a Congregational church at Salem, Massachusetts from 1850 to 1859.

He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.