| State Senate: | South Dakota |
| District: | 2nd[1] |
| Term Start: | January 8, 2013 |
| Term End: | January 13, 2015 |
| Predecessor: | Jim Hundstad |
| Successor: | Brock Greenfield |
| Birth Name: | Charles Burl Welke |
| Birth Date: | 27 May 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Redfield, South Dakota, United States |
| Death Place: | Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Spouse: | Ellen Byrant Welke |
| Children: | 3 |
| Residence: | Warner, South Dakota |
Charles Burl "Chuck" Welke[2] (;[3] May 27, 1953 – May 11, 2021) was an American politician and who served as a Democratic member of the South Dakota Senate representing District 2 from 2013 to 2015.
Charles Burl Welke was born in Redfield, South Dakota and graduated from Redfield High School in 1971. He received his bachelor of science degree in secondary education and his master's degree in secondary administration from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. He taught at the high school in Harrold, South Dakota until 1977 and then taught at the high school in Warner, South Dakota. Welke retired in 2021 and was a substitute teacher.[4]
He died after a heart attack at the Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on May 11, 2021, at age 67.[7] [8] [9]