Richard Thomas James (27 February 1910 – 27 October 1965) was a politician from the U.S. state of Indiana.
[1] Richard James was born in Portland, Jay County in Indiana.
Afterwards he studied law at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in Ohio.
He joined the Republican Party and in 1934 he was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, where he remained until 1936.
In this function he was the deputy of governor Ralph F. Gates and he presided over the Indiana Senate.