James Andrew Courter (born October 14, 1941) is an American Republican Party politician and attorney.

[1] Courter graduated from Montclair Academy in 1959, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1963 from Colgate University, and earned a Juris Doctor degree from Duke University School of Law in 1966.

[1] A Republican, Courter served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years, from 1979 until 1991.

[3] He was the Republican Party nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1989, but lost in a landslide to Democrat Jim Florio.

[6] In 1990, a 12-ton recreational vehicle collided with the front of the Courters' Hackettstown, New Jersey home.