Charles Humphrey (February 14, 1792 – April 17, 1850) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

He entered the United States Army at the beginning of the War of 1812 as First Sergeant of Newburgh Company Number Five.

He was commissioned a captain in the Forty-first Regiment, United States Infantry, on August 15, 1813.

After the war he resumed the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in Newburgh, New York on January 11, 1816.

He was a member from Tompkins County of the New York State Assembly from 1834 to 1836, when he was active in studying prison reform as well as education, and in 1842, and was Speaker in 1835 and 1836.