Charles Reese was a state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Hinds County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1872 to 1873.[1] [2] In April 1872 he signed, along with many representatives and senators, a petition for the equal rights and treatment of African Americans many of whom had been freed from slavery during and after the American Civil War.[3]
He was born circa 1835 in Mississippi, worked as a farm laborer and served as an inspector in the 1871 special election in Hinds County.