Charles H. Trout (November 3, 1935 – September 27, 2006[1]) was a historian and college president.
He joined the faculty of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in 1969 and became chairman of its history department.
[citation needed] Trout moved to Colgate University in New York in 1981, where he served as provost for a ten years before becoming the president of Washington College in 1990.
Trout was the author of Boston, the Great Depression, and the New Deal (Oxford University Press, 1977).
[citation needed] Trout died in 2006 from complications from blood cancer.