Charles Vilas Truax (February 1, 1887 – August 9, 1935) was an American politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1933 to 1935.

He was appointed director of agriculture of Ohio by Governor A. Victor Donahey in 1923 and served until 1929.

He engaged in the life insurance business in Columbus, Ohio, in 1928.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., August 9, 1935.

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