James Everett was a senior Irish politician. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 as a Labour Party TD for Wicklow. Everett was one of the 6 TDs who left the Labour Party in 1944 because of its alleged infiltration by communists and formed the National Labour Party. Everett became the leader of the new party. In 1948 the National Labour Party joined the Cabinet of John A. Costello in the First Inter-Party Government and Everett was appointed Minister for Posts & Telegraphs. In 1950, during the First Inter-Party Governement's tenure, the Labour Party and the National Labour Party reunited . Everett served in government again between 1954 and 1957. He retired from the Dáil in 1969.
