James Wadsworth (lawyer)

James Wadsworth III (July 8, 1730 – September 22, 1816) was an American lawyer from Durham, Connecticut.

For other people named James Wadsworth, see James Wadsworth (disambiguation).

After graduating from Yale College in 1748, he became clerk of Durham from 1756 to 1786. Initially a brigadier general of the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War, after the death of David Wooster in 1777 he became the major general of militia and the second-highest ranked militia officer in the state. After the war, he became a justice of the New Haven County Court of Common Pleas. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1786, Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1784 to 1785, a member of the Connecticut Executive Council from 1785 to 1790, and as a judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors from 1787 to 1788.

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