Charles Richmond Henderson (1848–1915) was an American Baptist minister and sociologist.

He published several works on society in the United States, the prison system, and the sociology of charities.

[4] He earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree at the Baptist Union Theological Seminary in 1873[4] and was ordained as a minister.

From 1873 to 1883 Henderson was pastor at Terre Haute, Indiana, and from c. 1883 to 1892 at Woodward Avenue Baptist Church in Detroit.

[5] Appointed in 1892 assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, he was afterward advanced to a full professorship.