James Woodbury Perkins, Jr., (September 16, 1840 – August 18, 1892) was an American businessman and Republican politician.
[1] At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Perkins volunteered for service in the Union Army.
[2] With the 11th Wisconsin Infantry, he participated in the fighting in the western theater of the war, and was involved in several of the important battles of the Vicksburg campaign.
[1] He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1884, running on the Republican Party ticket and defeating Democratic incumbent Samuel Tanner.
Perkins then married Martha M. Keller of Philadelphia on November 8, 1874, and had at least three more children, though two of those (twins) died in infancy.