Charles Lemuel Kagey (December 22, 1876 – October 13, 1941) was an American lawyer and diplomat from Kansas.

[1] John was a farmer who received a commission in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

In 1904, he formed the law firm Kagey & Anderson, which practiced all over the state, served as the local attorneys for Union Pacific Railroad and Missouri Pacific Railroad, and was general counsel for the Scott City Northern Railway Company.

[2] In 1921, President Hoover nominated Kagey as American Minister to Finland.

[1] He was a member of the Academy of Political Science, the National Geographic Society, the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Elks, the Freemasons, the Knights Templar, and the Shriners.