Joseph Augustus Tole KC (1846 – 13 December 1920) was a 19th-century New Zealand lawyer, politician, and Minister of Justice from 1884 to 1887.

[1] In Auckland, he attended St Peter's School under the guidance of his teacher, Richard O'Sullivan.

[1] He represented the Auckland electorate of Eden from 1876 general election (held on 6 January) until 1887.

[5] In the 1887 election, when he contested the Newton electorate, the two other candidates were Edward Withy (a political novice who, after early retirement from business, had emigrated with his large family to Auckland in 1884) and Henry Thomas Garrett.

[10] He had been ill for four months and was improving, but he died at his home in Remuera from heart failure on 13 December 1920.