Charles Kuehn (c.1818 – November 2, 1865) was a German American immigrant, banker, and Democratic politician.
He settled in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, in Manitowoc County, where he operated a grocery and dry goods store for several years.
He was the only candidate on the statewide Democratic slate that year who was not tainted by the corruption scandals of the Barstow administration, and was narrowly elected over Republican nominee Charles Roeser.
The defeat of the Confederacy was a financial disaster for him and his banks, eventually resulting in their failure, able to pay out only 45 cents on the dollar to their depositors.
[1] Kuehn died just a few months after the war's end, in November 1865, but before his bank's imminent failure became known to the public.