James Rankin Young (March 10, 1847 – December 18, 1924) was an American newspaperman and Civil War veteran who served three terms as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1897 to 1903.

James R. Young was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and attended Central High School until 1863.

[1] He enlisted in the Union Army in June 1863 in the Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and served until 1865.

He served as chief of the Washington bureau of the New York Tribune from June 1866 to December 1870.

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