Charles Emory Smith (February 18, 1842 – January 19, 1908) was an American journalist and political leader.

Charles Emory Smith was born in Mansfield, Connecticut on February 18, 1842.

[2] In 1890 to 1892 he was United States minister to Russia, and during that period had charge of distributing among the Russian famine sufferers five shiploads of food and other supplies, valued at an estimated $750,000.

In November 1892, he gave a speech "addressing the problem of immigration" to the Patria Club.

[3] He was Postmaster General in the cabinet of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt from April 1898 until January 1902, and did much to develop the rural free delivery system.