David Deas (South Carolina)

David Deas was the twelfth intendant (mayor) of Charleston, South Carolina, serving one term from 1802 to 1803.

He was elected on September 1, 1800, to a first term as a warden (city council member) for Charleston, South Carolina. He married Mary Sommers on October 16, 1800. He was elected intendant in September 1802. Deas implemented a quarantine of ships having been to New York City to prevent the spread of a contagious fever to Charleston in September and October 1803. In 1803 he began serving in the South Carolina House of Representatives where he, among other things, sought to repeal part of the Negro Act providing that slaves could be imported for free.