Charles B. Keats (July 21, 1905 – February 18, 1978) was an American politician and journalist who served as Secretary of the State of Connecticut from 1953 to 1955.

[2][3] Keats was born in Bridgeport and graduated from Syracuse University in 1929, where he taught and coached boxing for two years.

He worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Bridgeport, New York, and St. Louis from 1931 to 1940, illustrating many of his stories with his own cartoons.

Keats filled the unexpired term of Alice K. Leopold, who had resigned to lead the United States Women's Bureau.

A lifelong artist who lived briefly in Greenwich Village after college, he painted portraits of Connecticut governors and exhibited his work nationwide.