James Smith Havens (May 28, 1859 – February 27, 1927) was an American lawyer and politician who served part of one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from April 1910 to March 1911, having been elected to fill a mid-term vacancy.

He attended the public schools and Munro Collegiate Institute, Elbridge, New York and graduated from Yale College in 1884.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James B. Perkins (April 19, 1910 – March 3, 1911).

He was vice president and secretary of the Eastman Kodak Company, and head of its legal department from 1919 until his death and interment in Mount Hope Cemetery in 1927.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress