Charles Champlain Townsend (November 24, 1841 – July 10, 1910) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

[1][2] Charles C. Townsend was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now a part of Pittsburgh).

During the American Civil War, he served two years in the Union Army as a private in Company A, Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Reserve Corps, and later as adjutant of the First Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry.

[5] Townsend was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress.

[6][7] Townsend died in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, in 1910, and was interred in the Grove Cemetery.