Charles Clark Sholes (January 8, 1816 – October 5, 1867) was a Wisconsin politician and newspaperman.

[2] Born in Norwich, Connecticut, to Orrin and Catherine Sholes, he worked for a time in Pennsylvania and learned printing.

While in Green Bay, he first entered politics, serving as a Democrat in the lower chamber of the Wisconsin Territorial Assembly during the first and second sessions (1837-1840).

In Kenosha, his brother Christopher Latham Sholes managed the paper, and eventually purchased the business from Charles.

Sholes returned to politics one more time in 1865, earning election to the Wisconsin State Senate on the National Union Party ticket for the 1866 and 1867 sessions.