Charles C. Stockley

Charles Clark Stockley (November 6, 1819 – April 20, 1901) was an American politician from Georgetown in Sussex County, Delaware.

They lived on Cedar Lane (State Rd 318) southeast of Georgetown, near the present-day airport, and were members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

The majority Democratic Party still described itself as, “the White Man’s Party”, and still promoted thinking that could criticize African American voting rights, as an “insane policy of investing an ignorant and inferior race with the sacred rights of the ballot.” Nevertheless, now twenty years after the Civil War, the first stirrings of tolerance were heard.

Stockley, on his retirement, noted that “Our colored citizens are improving their advantages by laudable efforts to acquire homes for themselves and education for their children.

Stockley died at his home and is buried in the St. Paul's Episcopal Churchyard at Georgetown.