Charles Pelham (March 12, 1835 – January 18, 1908) was an American lawyer, politician, and Confederate Civil War veteran who served one term as a U.S. congressional representative from Alabama from 1873 to 1875.

[1] There, Charles Pelham attended the common schools and later studied law.

After the beginning of the U.S. Civil War, Pelham entered the Confederate army in 1862 and served as first lieutenant of Company C, Fifty-first Regiment, Alabama Infantry.

After the war, he served as judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Alabama from 1868 until 1873.

When he was not renominated in 1874, Pelham resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C. Late in life, he was appointed a clerk in the Treasury Department.