In Politics and The Law
- Sir James Gibson, 1st Baronet, British Member of Parliament for Edinburgh East 1909–1912
- James Gibson (bishop) (1881–1952), Anglican bishop in Canada
- James Gibson (Irish politician), 19th century UK MP for Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
- James Gibson (judge) (1902–1992), New York judge
- James Gibson (Missouri), Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, 1883–1884
- James Gibson (New York state senator) (1816–1897), New York lawyer and politician
- James Alexander Gibson (1912–2003), Canadian academic, federal bureaucrat and private secretary to prime minister William Lyon Mackenzie King
- James B. Gibson (born 1949), Nevada politician
- James K. Gibson (1812–1879), Virginia congressman
- James William Gibson (1888–1965), politician in Saskatchewan, Canada
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