James M. Wallace (1750 – December 17, 1823) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Wallace was born in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. He pursued preparatory studies in Philadelphia, and participated in the American Revolutionary War as a member of Capt. James Roger’s, Col. Timothy Green’s, and Capt. William Brown’s companies, and at the close of the war was major of a battalion of Associators. He commanded a company of rangers in defense of the frontier in 1779. He became major of the Dauphin County Militia in 1796. He was one of the commissioners of the county from 1799 to 1801, and a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1806 to 1810.