Charles Alexander Pettibone (May 26, 1841 – November 30, 1925) was an American newspaper editor and Republican politician.
He served four years in the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Dodge County, and was later sergeant-at-arms of that body.
Pettibone attended public schools, and obtained what was described as a "partial collegiate education" in the Wayland Academy and Lawrence University.
During the American Civil War, he enlisted on August 15, 1851, in Company C of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment of the Union Army.
a newspaper in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in which Pettibone wrote how the recent American entry into "the war in Europe" (World War I) reminded him of his own early days as a green volunteer, concluding, ‘We thought we were having some army experiences while there, but in comparison with our service after we were assigned and reported for duty in the Department of the Cumberland, it was a picnic.