Charles Dyer Beckwith (October 22, 1838 – March 27, 1921) was an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey who represented the 5th congressional district from 1889 to 1891.

[1][2] Beckwith was born near Coveville in the Town of Saratoga, Saratoga County, New York on October 22, 1838; attended private schools in Troy, New York, Philadelphia, Worcester, Massachusetts, and a military institution in New Haven, Connecticut.

He was a member of the board of aldermen in 1882, and Mayor of Paterson, New Jersey from 1885 to 1889.

He returned to the State of New York and settled on a farm in the town of Chatham in Columbia County, New York in 1897 and engaged in the management of his farm until his death near Chatham Center on March 27, 1921.

He was interred in Chatham Center Rural Cemetery but was later removed with his wife to the Beckwith family plot at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey om September 1, 1944.