James Tillinghast Archer (May 15, 1819 – June 1, 1859) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Florida.

[2] In 1840, Archer was named U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Florida, though he would only hold the position for that year.

[5] He served in this position until April 1848, when he was appointed as the third Florida Attorney General upon the resignation of incumbent Augustus Maxwell.

[7] Archer would later be briefly appointed as the fifth Florida Comptroller following the short absence of incumbent Theodore W. Brevard.

[1] Shortly after his death, his friend David Levy Yulee named the town of Archer, Florida, after him.