Charles Coleman (politician)

{{short description|American politician}}

Charles W. Coleman (born 7 August 1932){{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xBFWAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51 |chapter=Members of State Legislature |title=The State of Wisconsin Blue Book |date=1985 |page=51 |publisher=Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau |access-date=2022-05-26}} is an American former politician who served as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Coleman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.{{cite web|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=turn&entity=WI.WIBlueBk1989.p0065&id=WI.WIBlueBk1989&isize=text|title=Members of State Legislature|publisher=Wisconsin Blue Book|accessdate=2013-06-29}} He graduated from high school in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in 1950, as well as the University of Wisconsin–Madison (B.B.A., 1954; M.S., 1959). During the Korean War, he served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. Coleman has six children.{{cite web|url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2017&term_type_id=1&term_type_text=People&letter=C|title=Coleman, Charles W.|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society|accessdate=2013-06-29|archive-date=2013-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014064635/https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2017&term_type_id=1&term_type_text=People&letter=C|url-status=dead}}

Coleman was first elected to the Assembly in 1982. Additionally, he was a member of the Whitewater, Wisconsin Unified District Public School Board from 1978 to 1983 and Chairman of the Walworth County, Wisconsin Republican Party.