James Dixon Murray (17 September 1887 – 24 January 1965) was a British coal miner and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
He began work at a Durham pit aged thirteen, and was hewing coal by the time he was sixteen years old.
He was elected unopposed as the Member of Parliament for Spennymoor at a by-election in July 1942, following the resignation of the Labour MP Joseph Batey due to ill health.
It is popularly believed that it took him years to make his maiden speech, finally rising to his feet during World War II to complain about "the shortage of dum-tits at Meadowfield Co-op".
[10] Prior to his election to Parliament, he ran a shop and lived in a house opposite it at 11 Frederick Street, North Meadowfield until he died.