Peter Charles Gaillard was the thirty-eighth mayor of

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

, serving in 1865-1868. He was the last mayor elected before the Civil War. He died on January 11, 1889, and is buried at Magnolia Cemetery.

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Confederate States Army officers Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina 1812 births 1889 deaths 19th-century American politicians United States Army officers United States Military Academy alumni People from Berkeley County, South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-mayor-stub