Charles Manly (May 13, 1795 – May 1, 1871) was a lawyer who served as the 31st governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1849 to 1851.

He was the last sitting governor of North Carolina to lose re-election until Pat McCrory in 2016.

He was also an ancestor of Alexander Manly, the African-American editor of the Wilmington Daily Record.

[1] He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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