Charles Cleaves Cole (May 22, 1841 – March 17, 1905) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
He was a private in the United States Army during the American Civil War, serving in the 17th Maine Infantry, from 1862 to 1865.
[1] Cole was nominated by President Benjamin Harrison on December 12, 1892, to an Associate Justice seat on the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (now the United States District Court for the District of Columbia) vacated by Associate Justice Charles Pinckney James.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 28, 1893, and received his commission the same day.
[1] Cole thereafter returned to private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1901 until his death there on March 17, 1905.