Samuel Prioleau was the twenty-sixth 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 from 1824 to 1825. The Prioleaus were a prominent South Carolina planter family of French Huguenot descent. In 1820, Prioleau was elected to serve as a representative in the South Carolina House of Representatives for Charleston. He was well suited for service on the Judiciary Committee given his legal training. In 1825, he was made Recorder of the City by the City Council of Charleston. His son, Charles K. Prioleau, was a cotton merchant who became the primary financial agent for the Confederacy in England during the

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.American Civil War Society (UK), Prioleau
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