Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve (July 1, 1819 – April 1, 1907) was an American women's suffrage advocate and social reformer during the early history of Minnesota, and the first woman elected to the Minneapolis School Board.

Born during her parents' journey to help build the future Fort Snelling, she lived to see a fledgling community grow into an urban center.

[2] Charlotte Clark met her future husband, Lieutenant Horatio P. Van Cleve, at Fort Winnebago in Wisconsin Territory in 1833.

[2][4] The couple moved between Ohio, Missouri, and Michigan over the next twenty years, but Charlotte longed for the open prairies of her childhood home.

The Van Cleves left Long Prairie and moved to Fort Snelling, and later St. Anthony, where they would spend the rest of their lives.

Residents committed a year to the house and in turn were offered a safe place to stay and a chance to learn job skills like cooking and sewing.

[4] In February 1938 a group of senior high school girls formed the Charlotte Van Cleve Good Citizens Club in her honor.

[2] The Horatio P. Van Cleve House, where Charlotte and her husband lived beginning in 1862, still stands in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota.