Charles West was an American politician who served as the first attorney general of Oklahoma from 1907 to 1915.

Charles West was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 16, 1872.

He was admitted to the Oklahoma Territory bar in 1895 and practiced in Pound Creek and Enid.

[2] He was the president of the National Association of Attorneys General from 1911 to 1912.

[1] He is one of the only public attorneys to represent a Catholic school as an official act of office in the United States.