Charles Sumner Bird (August 15, 1855 – October 9, 1927) was an American politician from Massachusetts.

He expanded the company's mills to Rhode Island and Canada and was one of the first to adopt the eight-hour work day.

[4] She became the first woman from Massachusetts to be a member of the Republican National Committee (1921-1928), and was also the founder of a women's suffrage group in Boston.

During the 1912 presidential election he supported former President Theodore Roosevelt in his attempt to win the Republican nomination and after he left to form the Progressive Party, which Bird joined.

Later in life Bird supported the Eighteenth Amendment and attacked unionization as "the greatest crisis that ... this nation has faced for half a century."