James Peter Pattison (28 June 1886 – 31 December 1963) was an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1933 to 1951 and 1954 to 1957.
[2] In 1944, the Labour Party split and Pattison became a member of the new political movement, the National Labour Party.
He lost his Dáil seat at the 1951 general election to the former Fianna Fáil TD Francis Humphreys, but regained it at the 1954 general election.
He was defeated again at the 1957 general election, again by a Fianna Fáil candidate, and retired from national politics.
His son, Séamus Pattison, was elected at the 1961 general election and is a former Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann.