Charles H. Rutledge (1901-1978) was the manager of the Product Information section for the Textile Fibers Department at the DuPont Company from 1944 to 1966. He authored numerous papers and was a contributor to textbooks and encyclopedias on textile fibers.

Rutledge was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Perryville, Maryland. He earned degrees from John Hopkins University and Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).

His first newspaper job was with the Baltimore Sun. Rutledge then went on to a sportswriting career in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, New York, and Philadelphia. Between 1933 and 1941, he worked as an editor, first for the Cecil Whig, then the Newark Post, and lastly the Morning News. In 1941, he became the director of the Puerto Rican News Bureau in San Juan. From 1942 to 1944, he was an account exectuive for a New York public relations firm.

When Rutledge first joined the DuPont Company in 1944, he was the public relations adivser to the Rayon Department. When the department was reorganzed as the Textile Fibers Department, he became the manager of the Product Information section for Textile Fibers. Product Information was considered a section within the Public Relations Department, and the public relations staff members in Product Information were assigned to specific operating departments. They reported jointly to the heads of Public Relations and the specific department. Rutledge's Product Information section's main purpose was to create news releases, accompanied by photographs that would be run editorially by trade journals and newspapers to create inexpensive publicity and indirect advertising. These were designed to establish and strengthen in the reader's mind the connection between DuPont, as a maker of fibers, and the garment and fashion industry.

Rutledge retired from the DuPont Company in 1966.