James E. Whitlock, known as Jimmy Whitlock (born 1934), is a former Democratic member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Lebanon, the seat of Marion County, Kentucky.
Whitlock was elected to three two-year terms in District 29 in 1961, 1963, and 1965. He did not seek a fourth term in the general election held on November 7, 1967. He was instead succeeded by Herman W. Rattliff, the first Republican to represent the district in generations.[1] Rattliff defeated Whitlock's successor nominee, J.E. Pickett, and he even ran ahead of his gubernatorial ticket-mate, Louie B. Nunn of Glasgow in Barren County, the first Republican elected governor since 1943.