Charles Dow Richards (June 12, 1879 – September 15, 1956), was a Canadian lawyer, judge and politician.

[2] He served as Conservative house leader and then Minister of Lands and Mines under Premier John B. M. Baxter.

[4] His two-year administration, in the depths of the Great Depression, instituted public bidding on crown land and fishing rights.

In 1933 he left politics when he was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, serving as its Chief Justice from 1946 to 1955.

He did not accept the jury's request "that mercy be shown to the accused," 22-year-old Thomas Roland Hutchings, and sentenced him to hang at St. Andrews, New Brunswick on Wednesday, December 16, 1942, for the rape and murder of Bernice Connors.