Editing Charles (section)

===In politics===
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|[[Charles "Bubba" Chaney]]|| Louisiana politician
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|[[Charles Francis Adams Sr.]]|| American congressman and ambassador, grandson of [[John Adams]]
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|[[Charles Edward Bennett]]|| Democratic U.S. Congressman from Florida
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|[[Charles Bent]]|| first Governor of [[New Mexico Territory]], assassinated in 1847
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|[[Charles Joseph Bonaparte]]|| former [[U. S. Attorney General]]
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|[[Charles Bradlaugh]]|| British political activist and militant atheist, founder of the [[National Secular Society]]
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|[[Charles Q. Brown Jr.]]|| [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]]
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|[[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]]|| last living signer of the [[U.S. Declaration of Independence]] (died 1832)
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|[[Charles Chanda]]
|Zambian politician
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|[[Charles Colson]]|| U.S. [[Richard Nixon]]'s Chief Counsel, involved in the [[Watergate scandal]]
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|[[Charles Magill Conrad]]|| former American [[Secretary of War]]
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|[[Charles Edward Bandaranaike Corea]]|| Sri Lankan Sinhala lawyer
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|[[Charles Curtis]]|| 31st American Vice President, under [[Herbert Hoover]]
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|[[Charles G. Dawes]]|| 30th American Vice President, under [[Calvin Coolidge]]
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|[[Charles Devens]]|| former U.S. Attorney General
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|[[Charles de Gaulle]]|| French military leader and statesman
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|[[C. E. P. de Silva|Charles Edward Perry de Silva]] || Sri Lankan Sinhala lawyer and politician
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|[[C. P. de Silva|Charles Percival de Silva]] || Sri Lankan civil servant and politician
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|[[Charles Batuwantudawe|Charles de Silva Batuwantudawe]] || Sri Lankan Sinhala lawyer and politician
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|[[Charles Edirisuriya]]|| Sri Lankan Sinhala Member of Parliament for [[Hambanthota]]
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|[[Charlie Elphicke]]|| British politician
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|James [[Charles Evers]]|| [[civil rights]] activist, older brother of Medgar Evers
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|[[Charles W. Fairbanks]]|| 26th American Vice President, under [[Theodore Roosevelt]]
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|[[C. H. Z. Fernando|Charles Hubert Zaleski Fernando]]|| Sri Lankan Sinhala businessman, lawyer, and member of the [[Legislative Council of Ceylon]]
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|[[Charles Matthew Fernando]]|| Sri Lankan Sinhala lawyer and scholar, first Sri Lankan [[Crown Counsel]]
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|[[Charles A. Ford]]|| American diplomat
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|[[Charles Gibbs (Alberta politician)|Charles Gibbs]]|| Canadian politician 
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|[[Charles J. M. Gwinn]]|| American lawyer and politician
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|[[Charles Harper (Mayor)|Charles Harper]]|| Australian politician 
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|[[Charles Alwis Hewavitharana]]|| Sri Lankan Sinhala independence activist
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|[[Charles Evans Hughes]]|| former U.S. Secretary of State
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|[[Charles Humphreys]]|| Pennsylvania delegate to [[Continental Congress]]; refused to sign Declaration of Independence due to his [[Quaker]] beliefs
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|[[Charles Y. Kaneshiro]]|| American politician
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|[[Charles Kennedy]]|| British politician
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|[[Charles Lapointe]]|| Canadian politician
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|[[Chuck Larson]]|| former U.S. ambassador to Latvia
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|[[Charles Lee (Attorney General)|Charles Lee]]|| former U. S. Attorney General
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|[[Charles Ambrose Lorensz]]|| Sri Lankan [[Burgher people|Burgher]] lawyer, legislator, and journalist
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|[[Charles Mathias]] (1922–2010)|| American politician
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|[[Charles Naylor]] (1806–1872)|| American politician
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|[[Karolos Papoulias]]|| former [[President of Greece]]
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|[[Charles Stewart Parnell]]|| Irish political leader
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|[[Charles Sheedy (politician)|Charles Sheedy]] || West Virginian politician
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|[[Charles Pasqua]]|| French businessman and politician
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|[[Charles Pearson]]|| former Solicitor for The City of London and early railway advocate
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|[[Chuck Robb]]|| former Governor of Virginia and U.S. Senator
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|[[Charlie Rose (congressman)|Charlie Rose]]|| American congressman (Democrat from N.C.)
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|[[Charles Scott (governor of Kentucky)|Charles Scott]]|| Governor of Kentucky; also [[George Washington]]'s Chief of Intelligence during the [[American Revolution]]
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|[[Charles Harding Smith]]|| Irish politician
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|[[Charles G. Taylor]]|| former [[President of Liberia]]
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|[[Charles Thomson]]|| secretary of the Continental Congress
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|[[Charles Townsend (British politician)|Charles Townsend]]
|British politician
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|[[Charles Wilson (Texas politician)|Charles Wilson]]|| Texas congressman, subject of 2007 movie ''[[Charlie Wilson's War (film)|Charlie Wilson's War]]''
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