Charles Hial Darling

Charles Hial Darling (May 9, 1859 – October 31, 1944) was United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy from 1901 to 1905.

He was educated at Green Mountain Perkins Academy and Montpelier Seminary, and went to college at Tufts, receiving his A.B.

He was admitted to the bar in 1886, and practiced in Bennington, Vermont as the partner of Orion M.

In 1889, he married Agnes C. Norton of Bennington, and together the couple had three daughters, Margaret, Alice, and Elizabeth.

In 1901, President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt nominated Darling as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.