James Murray Mason (1798 ? 1871) was an American lawyer and politician who became a Confederate diplomat. A grandson of George Mason, Mason strongly supported slavery as well as Virginia's secession as the American Civil War began. As the Confederacy's leading diplomat, he travelled to Europe seeking support, but proved unable to get the United Kingdom to recognize the Confederacy as a country. As Mason sailed to England in November 1861, the U.S. Navy captured his ship and detained him, in what became known as the Trent Affair. His latter's voyage to Europe failed to achieve foreign support.

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