James W. Porter may refer to:
James W. Porter (Kansas politician) (March 1, 1911 - ?), a lawyer and state legislator in Kansas national ho served in the Kansas Senate 1949 through 1960 James W. Porter (politician) (fl. 1940s), American politician from New York James W. Porter (judge) (1887–1959), justice of the Idaho Supreme Court James W. Porter (ecologist) (born 1946), American ecologist James W. Porter II (born 1949), American lawyer and gun rights activist