James Earl White (born July 16, 1964) is a former member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 19, which encompassed Polk, Hardin, Jasper, Newton, and Tyler counties.

A member of the Republican Party, White was first elected in District 12 in 2010, which then included Angelina, San Jacinto, Trinity, and Tyler counties.

[1] White is a member of the American Legion, the Masonic lodge, the National Rifle Association of America, the historically black fraternity Omega Psi Phi, the Farm Bureau, and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

[2] Switched to District 19 in 2012, White unseated in the Republican primary the 10-year incumbent Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton of Lumberton in Hardin County.

[9][10] White's 2017 bill called upon the Legislature, State Preservation Board, or Texas Historical Commission to find another "prominent location" whenever any monument on state property "for military, war-related or other historical service" was moved, and would have established fines and jail time for violators.

[14][15][16] On October 19, 2021, White expressed his opinion about same-sex marriage in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

White noted that Texas laws "continue to define marriage as the union between one man and one woman" even after the U.S. Supreme Court decisions of Obergefell v. Hodges and De Leon v. Perry.