Plato Fludd

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Plato C. Fludd (fl. 1865–1875) was a judge, public official, and politician in South Carolina. He had lived in Charleston and had been enslaved, and later lived in Florence, South Carolina, where he became one of its first elected politicians. In 1865 he helped organize a mass meeting to discuss Black representation at the South Carolina state convention. When Florence was incorporated in 1870, Fludd served as the town’s postmaster. He also served in the state legislature, representing Darlington County. He worked as a judge and as county treasurer. Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain dismissed him as a judge in 1875. Governor Robert K. Scott appointed him as an election official in 1870. In 1875 the legislature passed an act allowing him to build gates across a public lane running past his property.