Charles Denison

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{for|the American cleric, author and newspaper editor|Charles Wheeler Denison}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Charles Denison

| image = CharlesDenison (1).jpg

| imagesize= 215px

| caption =

| state = Pennsylvania

| district = 12th

| term_start = March 4, 1863

| term_end = June 27, 1867

| preceded = Hendrick B. Wright

| succeeded = George W. Woodward

| birth_date = {{birth date|1818|01|23}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1867|06|27|1818|01|23}}

| birth_place = Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania

| death_place = Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

| party = Democratic

}}

Charles Denison (January 23, 1818 – June 27, 1867) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Charles Denison (nephew of George Denison) was born in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. He received a liberal education, and was graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1838. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840 and commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Denison was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses and served until his death in Wilkes-Barre. He was a delegate to the 1864 Democratic National Convention. Interment in Forty Fort Cemetery in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania.