Charles Humphreys

Charles Humphreys ( born September 19, 1714 Haverford, Pennsylvania, † March 11, 1786 ibid ) was an American politician, who participated as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress.

Charles Humphreys came in today's Delaware County in the extreme southeast Pennsylvania to the world. He completed his preparatory to the study of education, then was active but as a miller. His political career began even during the British colonial era, when he held until 1774 belonged to the Provincial Congress of Pennsylvania from 1764.

In 1774 he was sent as a delegate of his home state to attend sessions of the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia. He agreed in July 1776 against the ratification of the Declaration of Independence - of conscience, as he rejected as a Quaker the inevitable appearing after this step war. In the same year he retired from the Continental Congress. Humphreys died in 1786 in Haverford and was buried at the local Old Haverford Meeting House Cemetery.