Samuel Prioleau

{{short description|American politician}}

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| name = Samuel Prioleau

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| order = 26th Mayor of Charleston

| term_start = 1824

| term_end = 1825

| predecessor = John Geddes

| successor = Joseph Johnson

| party = Federalist

| birth_date = 4 September 1784

| birth_place = Charleston, South Carolina

| death_date = 6 May 1839 (aged 54)

| death_place = Pendleton, South Carolina

| profession = lawyer

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File:Coat of Arms of Samuel Prioleau.svg

Samuel Prioleau was the twenty-sixth mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, serving from 1824 to 1825.

The Prioleaus were a prominent South Carolina planter family of French Huguenot descent.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RtNnkILXghkC&q=Prioleau |title=Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina |date=1889 |publisher=Huguenot Society of South Carolina |language=en}} In 1820, Prioleau was elected to serve as a representative in the South Carolina House of Representatives for Charleston.{{cite news | url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=P57E43EBMTM5MDM1MzczMy4zODIyODA6MToxNDoxOTIuMTUyLjI0OS4yOQ&p_action=doc&f_content=body&p_queryname=6&p_docnum=2&p_docref=v2:10CE9D1E37A06AE0@EANX-10EF6CDF441AFEB0@2386106-10EF6CDFE4AF72F0@2-10EF6CE133E20F08@ | title=Election Returns | work=The Pendleton Messenger | date=November 1, 1820 | accessdate=January 21, 2014 | location=Pendleton, South Carolina | pages=3}} He was well suited for service on the Judiciary Committee given his legal training.{{cite news | url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=P57E43EBMTM5MDM1MzczMy4zODIyODA6MToxNDoxOTIuMTUyLjI0OS4yOQ&p_action=doc&f_content=body&p_queryname=10&p_docnum=42&p_docref=v2:1089C6C0AF0CEFE8@EANX-12948EEF427E8CC0@2387537-12948EEFB1C9F0F0@1-12948EF08D5A26E0@For%20the%20City%20Gazette.%20The%20Charleston%20Delegation | title=The Charleston Delegation | work=City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser | date=October 2, 1824 | accessdate=January 21, 2014 | location=Charleston, South Carolina | pages=2}} In 1825, he was made Recorder of the City by the City Council of Charleston.{{cite web | url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=P57E43EBMTM5MDM1MzczMy4zODIyODA6MToxNDoxOTIuMTUyLjI0OS4yOQ&p_action=doc&f_content=body&p_queryname=10&p_docnum=45&p_docref=v2:1089C6C0AF0CEFE8@EANX-12CFEA423345AFC8@2387849-12CFEA425FD517F8@2-12CFEA43307D6808@%5BSamuel%20Prioleau%3B%20Council%3B%20Recorder%3B%20City%3B%20Bordeaux%5D | title=Samuel Prioleau, Esq. was yesterday elected by Council, Record of the City | work=City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser | date=August 10, 1825 | accessdate=January 21, 2014 | pages=2}}

His son, Charles K. Prioleau, was a cotton merchant who became the primary financial agent for the Confederacy in England during the American Civil War.[https://acws.co.uk/archives-biography-prioleau American Civil War Society (UK), Prioleau ] biography]