Charles West (Oklahoma politician)

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Charles West was the first Attorney General of Oklahoma, serving from November 16, 1907, to January 1915. He was born on March 16, 1872, in Savannah, Georgia, and was a member of the Democratic Party. West graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1891 and did postgraduate work at the University of Leipzig. He was admitted to the Oklahoma Territory bar in 1895 and practiced in Pound Creek and Enid. He served in the Oklahoma National Guard from 1898 to 1910 and was the president of the National Association of Attorneys General from 1911 to 1912. He is noted for representing a Catholic school as an official act of his office, a rarity for public attorneys in the United States.