Farmer and teacher. Graduate of Tougaloo. Served on the board of registrars for Hinds County in the early 1870s. Son of African Methodist Episcopal bishop James Alexander Shorter. Married Reba F. Young in 1877 and is listed with her on the 1880 census in Dry Grove, Hinds County. He died sometime before 1898 when Reba remarried.
Signature of James A. Shorter, Jr.Hinds County Gazette, May 1, 1872 Christian Recorder, June 5, 1873Petition to Governor Ames, Feb 12, 1874Tributes to Charles Sumner, 1874Weekly Mississippi Pilot, Feb 20, 1875Weekly Mississippi Pilot, March 13, 1875Clarion Ledger, May 19, 1875Weekly Mississippi Pilot, August 14, 1875Daily Mississippi Pilot, October 13, 1875The Comet, June 14, 1879The Comet, November 1, 1879The Comet, October 15, 1881Hinds County Gazette, November 2, 1881The Comet, March 4, 1882
