Charles Howell Porter (June 21, 1833 – July 9, 1897) was an attorney and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

Born and raised in Cairo, New York, he earned his law degree in Albany and set up a practice.

in 1861, with the outbreak of the American Civil War, he joined a New York volunteer unit.

Upon the readmission of Virginia to the US, Porter was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, serving from January 26, 1870, to March 3, 1873.

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