Politics
- James Thompson (Australian politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1856–1857
- James Thompson (civil servant) (1848–1929), Acting Governor of Madras
- James Thompson (jurist) (1806–1874), congressman and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- James A. Thompson, mayor of Sugar Land, Texas
- James F. Thompson, United States government official
- James Frederick Thompson (1884–1966), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
- James G. Thompson (New York) (born 1829), New York politician
- James R. Thompson (born 1936), governor of Illinois and member of the 9/11 Commission
- James T. Thompson, Mayor of Birkenhead, England, circa 1899
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