Joseph Landon Evins (October 24, 1910 – March 31, 1984) was an American lawyer and politician who served 15 terms as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1947 to 1977.

Another nephew, Dan Evins, was the founder of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store restaurant chain.

[4] Shortly after U.S. entry into World War II, he was commissioned in the United States Army Judge Advocate General Corps, serving on active duty until 1946, when he resumed his law practice in Smithville.

He won the election easily in this solidly-Democratic area, and was re-elected to fourteen more terms, generally with little or no opposition.

[citation needed] The Tennessee Technological University Appalachian Center for Craft near Smithville was built with a $5 million federal grant that Evins secured as a member of the Appropriations Committee.