Bent, Charles (1799–1847)
| US trader. A fur trader, Bent built Bent's Fort in present-day La Junta, Colorado with his brother, William Bent and Ceran St Vrain. He became the civil governor of New Mexico in 1846 but was killed in an uprising of Mexicans and Pueblo Indians. |
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