{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Charles Edward Church | honorific_suffix = | image = Charles Edward Church.png | constituency_MP = Lunenburg | parliament = Canadian | office = | predecessor = Edmund Mortimer McDonald | successor = Charles Edwin Kaulbach | term_start = 1872 | term_end = 1878 | office2 = Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Lunenburg | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | term_start2 = 1882 | term_end2 = 1901 | office3 = Senator from Nova Scotia | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | term_start3 = 1902 | term_end3 = 1906 | birth_date = {{birth date|1835|01|03}} | birth_place = Tancook Island, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia | death_date = {{death date and age|1906|01|03|1835|01|03}} | death_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<ref name="johnson"/> | spouse = Henrietta A. Pugsley | party = Liberal | other_party = Nova Scotia Liberal Party | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = Commissioner of Works and Mines (1882-1884)<br />Provincial Secretary (1884-1891 & 1896-1901) | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Charles Edward Church''' (January 3, 1835 – January 3, 1906) was a Canadian politician.
==Early life and education== Born in Tancook Island, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, the son of Charles Lott Anthony Church and Sarah Hiltz,<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref> Church was educated in Chester and Truro, Nova Scotia.
==Career== He was a school teacher for over ten years and then he started in business as a merchant. In 1884, Church married Henrietta A. Pugsley.<ref name="johnson"/> He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1872 for Lunenburg. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1874 and was defeated in 1878. From 1874 to 1878, he was Liberal Whip in the House of Commons for the Maritime Provinces.
He was elected in 1882 to the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia and sat there until 1902 when he was called to the Senate. Church was Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia for two years in the William Thomas Pipes administration, and Commissioner of Public Works and Mines for 15 years, in the William Stevens Fielding and George Henry Murray administrations. He was called to the Senate on February 8, 1902, on the advice of Wilfrid Laurier representing the senatorial division of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. He served until his death in 1906.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Canadian Parliament: Biographical Sketches and Photo-Engravures of the Senators and Members of the House of Commons of Canada|url=https://archive.org/details/canadianparliame00montuoft|accessdate=2007-04-29|publisher=The Perrault Printing Co.|location=Montreal|year=1906|pages=[https://archive.org/details/canadianparliame00montuoft/page/62 62]}}</ref>
He was a grandson of Charles Lot Church.
== Electoral record == {{1872 Canadian federal election/Lunenburg}} {{1874 Canadian federal election/Lunenburg}} {{1878 Canadian federal election/Lunenburg}}
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==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=887}}
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