Charles Bent

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Charles Bent (1799-1847) was appointed as the first Governor of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory by Governor Stephen Watts Kearny in September, 1846. He was assassinated on January 19, 1847 during the Taos Revolt.

Bent was born in 1799 in Charleston, West Virginia (then Virginia).

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