James H. Blount

James H. Blount (1869–1918) was an American lawyer, soldier and judge from Macon, Georgia, the son of the congressman of the same name whose report on Hawaii in 1893 opposed annexation. He went to the Philippines as an officer of United States Volunteers in 1899, served through the war against Aguinaldo's republic, and from 1901 to 1905 sat as a United States district judge in the islands. Returning home in broken health, he wrote The American Occupation of the Philippines, 1898–1912, a documented argument that the Filipinos were fit for independence and that the United States should grant it.