Charles Astor Bristed was an American scholar and author, sometimes writing under the pen name Carl Benson. He was the first American to write a full-length defense of Americanisms and is the earliest known person to use the term "conspiracy theory".
- Occupation
- writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 6, 1820, 1820
- Died
- January 15, 1874, 1874
