Charles Bent
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Charles Bent (November 11, 1799 – January 19, 1847) was appointed as the first Governor of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory by Governor Stephen Watts Kearny in September, 1846.
Bent was born in Charleston, West Virginia (then Virginia), and attended the United States Military Academy at West Point. After leaving the army, he and his younger brother William in 1828 took a wagon train of goods from St. Louis to Santa Fe. There they established mercantile contacts and began a series of trading trips back and forth over the Santa Fe Trail which resulted, in 1832, in a partnership with Ceran St. Vrain, a local fur trader, called Bent & St. Vrain Company.
He was assassinated on January 19, 1847 during the Taos Revolt.
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| Preceded by Mexican Governor, Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid |
Governor of New Mexico 1846-1847 |
Succeeded by James S. Calhoun |
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