Charles Warren Lippitt (October 8, 1846 – April 4, 1924) was an American politician and the 44th Governor of Rhode Island.

[2] His son, Charles Warren Lippitt, Jr. (1894–1970), served as a sergeant in the 103rd Field Artillery Regiment during the First World War.

His son, Charles Warren Lippitt III, was a captain in the United States Air Force and died on active duty in 1968.

He was wounded in action, sent back to the United States and died at Fort Mott in Cape May, New Jersey on October 6, 1918.

The Waves was designed by renowned architect John Russell Pope as his own summer residence and was converted to condominiums in the late 20th Century.

In 1897 he was admitted as an hereditary member of the Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati by right of his descent from Captain Charles Lippitt who served in Richmond's Regiment during the Revolution.

Lippitt Hall on the central quad of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston is named after Governor Charles W.