{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | name = Charles Ernest Tran | caption = | birth_date = January 29, 1878 | birth_place = Barrie, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|1934|03|24|1878|01|29}} | death_place = Kamsack, Saskatchewan | office = MLA for Pelly | term_start = 1925 | term_end = 1929 | predecessor = Sarah Ramsland | successor = Reginald Parker | party = Progressive | occupation = physician }}

'''Charles Ernest Tran''' (January 29, 1878<ref name="hawkes"/> &ndash; March 24, 1934<ref name="dies"/>) was a Canadian physician and politician in the province of Saskatchewan. He represented Pelly from 1925 to 1929 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Progressive Party member.

He was born in Barrie, Ontario, the son of William Tran and Mary English, and was educated in Barrie and at The Western University of London, Ontario (now the University of Western Ontario). Tran came west, settling in Kamsack, Saskatchewan. In 1912, he married Louise McGale. Tran served in the Canadian Medical Corps during World War I.<ref name="hawkes"/> He was mayor of Kamsack from 1914 to 1916 and in 1919, 1921, 1923 and 1926.<ref name="dies"/> Tran also owned a pharmacy in Kamsack.<ref name="hawkes">{{cite book |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=164937 |title=The story of Saskatchewan and its people |pages=1254–5 |volume=2 |last=Hawkes |first=John |year=1924 |accessdate=2012-03-13}}</ref> From 1925 to 1929, as leader of the Progressive Party, he shared the position of leader of the opposition in the provincial assembly with James Thomas Milton Anderson, the leader of the Conservative party.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/Leaders-of-the-Opposition.pdf |title=Saskatchewan Leaders of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |accessdate=2012-03-07}}</ref>

Tran retired from politics in 1929 but continued to practise medicine. He died in Kamsack on March 24, 1934, following a stroke, at the age of 56.<ref name="dies">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R3dTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KTgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3940,2617087 |title=Dr. C. E. Tran Dies Suddenly |newspaper=Leader-Post |location=Regina |date=March 24, 1934 |page=1 |accessdate=2012-05-21}}</ref>

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