James Hammond Tillman (June 27, 1869 – April 1, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from South Carolina. Born in Edgefield County, South Carolina, Edgefield County, he received his education in the Curryton Academy; the Virginia Military Institute; the Emerson Institute of Washington, D.C., and the Georgetown University Law School. Between 1901 and 1903 he was Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. He was the son of U.S. Representative George D. Tillman and nephew of Senator Benjamin Tillman. In 1903 he fatally shot journalist Narciso Gener Gonzales, co-founder of Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia newspaper ''The State (newspaper), The State'', and was acquitted of murder in a trial that gained national coverage. It is believed that had he not murdered Gonzales, Tillman would have led the political movement which Coleman Livingston Blease inherited from him.Simkins, Francis Butler (1944). ''Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian'' (first paperback ed.). Louisiana State University Press. OCLC (identifier), OCLC 1877696

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