John Leake Newbold Stratton (November 27, 1817, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey – May 17, 1889, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district for two terms from 1859 to 1863.

Stratton was born in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey, on November 27, 1817.

In 1842, he married Caroline Elizabeth Newbold, a distant cousin.

James would follow in his father's footsteps and attend Princeton, graduating in 1865, before entering law as a commissioner for the New Jersey Third Circuit Court and eventually entering military service, dying in 1886 as a colonel.

He died on May 17, 1889, in Mount Holly, and was interred there in St. Andrews Cemetery.