Charles William Hanko (August 3, 1920 – December 7, 1990) was an American historian and politician.
Hanko ran unsuccessfully as a Republican Candidate for the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1948.
Hanko wrote biographies of John Gibson and Matthew Stanley Quay.
Other books by Hanko include Economic threats to America and Christian Mobilizing (Neward: Washington Irving Pub.
Hanko was a member of the Evangelical Congregational Church in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where he was a licentiate minister.