Charles W. Cole

Charles Woolsey Cole (February 8, 1906 – February 20, 1978) was an American diplomat and academic. He was the United States Ambassador to Chile and the president of Amherst College.

Early life "Charlie" Cole was born February 8, 1906 in Montclair, New Jersey. He graduated from Montclair High School.

He attended Amherst College, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1927. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1931. He was a Social Science Research Council fellow for year.

Cole was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948. He was a member of the American Association of University Professors, the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He was buried in Wildwood Cemetery in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Selected publications

Books Cole, Charles Woolsey . French Mercantalist Doctrines Before Colbert. New York: Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1931 Cole, Charles Woolsey. Colbert And A Century of French Mercantilism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. Clough, Shepard Bancroft and Cole, Charles Woolsey. Economic History of Europe. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1941. Cole, Charles Woolsey. French Mercantalism 1683-1700. New York: Columbia University Press, 1943. Hayes, Carlton J. H. and Baldwin, Marshall Whithed and Cole, Charles Woolsey. History of Europe. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1949.

Journals

Cole, Charles Woolsey. “The Relativity of History.” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 2 (1933): 161–71. doi.org/10.2307/2143343.