Jamie Dutton

**You got to learn when to think like a lawyer, you understand? And when to think like a land owner.**
John Dutton the 3rd

## Jamie Dutton

* Present
* 20th Century

### Aliases

* Jamie
* Michael Randall (Birthname)

### Relatives

* Garrett Randall (Birth Father) †
* Phyllis Randall (Birth Mother) †
* John Dutton Jr. (Adoptive Grandfather) †
* John Dutton (Adoptive Father)
* Evelyn Dutton (Foster Mother) †
* Peter Dutton (Adoptive Uncle) †
* Lee Dutton (Adoptive Brother) †
* Bethany Dutton (Adoptive Sister)
* Kayce Dutton (Adoptive Brother)
* Monica Dutton (Sister-in-Law)
* Tate Dutton (Nephew)
* John Dutton IV (Nephew) †
* Jamie (Son)

### Affiliation

* Yellowstone Dutton Ranch
* Montana Attorney Generals Office
* Dutton Family

### Occupation

* Lawyer
* Politician
* Ranch Hand (Formerly)
* Montana State Attorney General

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

* Wes Bentley
* Dalton Baker

**James Michael Dutton** aka **Jamie** is a main character on *Yellowstone* and the adopted son of John and Evelyn Dutton.

## Biography

He and John have a complex relationship. Everyone looks down on Jamie, though he has done literally everything John has asked of him. John doesn't seem to hold any love for Jamie and often acts as though he will ruin the ranch.

### Early Life

Before he was Jamie Dutton, his name was Michael Randall. As an infant, he lived in the household of Garrett and Phyllis Randall. His mother was a junkie and his father was working to make ends meet. One day, Garrett walked in on his wife whoring herself off to some stranger while Jamie was crying because he was hungry and was sucking on some crack pipe. Infuriated, Garrett murdered his wife in order to save his child from the life he was living. He spent more than 3 decades in prison for the murder and Jamie was adopted by John and Evelyn Dutton. As a teen, he helped cover up a teenage pregnancy by taking Bethany to an abortion clinic on a Native American reservation that forcibly sterilized women by performing a hysterectomy without their consent, to avoid anyone seeing a Dutton in a clinic in a high populated place like Bozeman. Since that day, Beth and Jamie were entirely at odds primarily due to Beth losing her ability to produce children. He later went to law school to become a lawyer and got his law degree.

## Appearances

* *Kill the Messenger*
* *No Good Horses*
* *The Long Black Train*
* *Coming Home*
* *The Remembering*
* *A Monster is Among Us*
* *The Unravelling: Part 1*
* *The Unravelling: Part 2*
* *New Beginnings*
* *The Reek of Desperation*
* *Only Devils Left*
* *Touching Your Enemy*
* *Blood the Boy*
* *Resurrection Day*
* *Behind Us Only Grey*
* *Enemies by Monday*
* *Sins of the Father*

* *Freight Trains and Monsters*
* *An Acceptable Surrender*
* *Going Back to Cali*
* *Cowboys and Dreamers*
* *All for Nothing*
* *The Beating*
* *I Killed a Man Today*
* *Meaner Than Evil*
* *The World is Purple*
* *Phantom Pain*
* *All I See is You*
* *Winning or Learning*
* *Under a Blanket of Red*
* *I Want to Be Him*
* *Keep the Wolves Close*
* *No Kindness for the Coward*
* *No Such Thing as Fair*
* *Grass on the Streets and Weeds on the Rooftops*

* *The Sting of Wisdom*
* *Tall Drink of Water*
* *Horses in Heaven*
* *Watch'em Ride Away*
* *Cigarettes, Whiskey, a Meadow and You*
* *The Dream is Not Me*
* *A Knife and No Coin*