Charles K. Pringle
| Charles Kistner Pringle, Sr. | |
Mississippi State Representative
for Harrison County | |
| In office 1964–1968 | |
| Born | May 13, 1931 Place of birth missing |
|---|---|
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Slayden Pringle |
| Children | Caroline Pringle Brooks Dr. Charles K. Pringle, Jr. J. B. "Rives" Pringle |
| Residence | Biloxi, Mississippi, USA |
| Alma mater | Biloxi High School University of Mississippi |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Religion | Christian |
Charles Kistner Pringle, Sr. (born May 13, 1931),[1] is an attorney in Biloxi, Mississippi, who was one of the first two Republicans to serve in the Mississippi House of Representatives since Reconstruction.
Background
Pringle graduated in 1949 from Biloxi High School.[2] He graduated in 1951, at the age of twenty, from the University of Mississippi at Oxford[3] and in 1954 from the University of Mississippi School of Law.[4]
As of 2018, he was practicing with the firm, Pringle & Roemer.[5]
The husband of the former Ann Slayden (born 1932), Pringle has three children, a son, Dr. Charles K. Pringle, Jr. (born 1963), a radiologist in Ridgeland and a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville,[6] as well as secondr son, J. B. "Rives" Pringle, and a daughter, Caroline.
Political life
In 1963, at the age of thirty-two, Pringle ran for state representative in Biloxi on the Republican ticket headed by gubernatorial nominee Rubel Phillips of Corinth, and Jackson, Mississippi and the candidate for lieutenant governor, Stanford Morse, an outgoing state senator and lawyer from from Gulfport, the neighboring city of Biloxi on the Gulf Coast. Democratic Governor Ross Robert Barnett (1898-1987) was term-limited in the 1963 election. While Phillips and Morse, both former Democrats, were defeated by the Democrats Paul Burney Johnson, Jr., and Carroll Gartin, respectively, Pringle won his state House race.[7]
In 1967, Paul Johnson was ineligible to seek reelection as governor, a provision that has since been changed in the Mississippi state constitution. Rubel Phillips again carried the Republican nomination for governor, but he was handily defeated by the Democrat U.S. Representative John Bell Williams (1918-1983), then of Mississippi's 3rd congressional district. By this time, Clarke Reed of Greenville had replaced the original chairman of the state GOP, Wirt Yerger, an insurance agent in Jackson, under whom Pringle had been elected to the House. Pringle lost his House seat after a single term, as did two other freshmen Republican members of the legislature, Representative Lewis Leslie McAllister, Jr., a businessman from Meridian and later, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who served from 1962 to 1968, and state Senator Seelig Wise, who represented Coahoma County, Tunica, and Quitman counties near Clarksdale in northwestern Mississippi from 1964 to 1968.[7]
References
- ↑ Charles K. Pringle. Mylife.com. Retrieved on February 7, 2021.
- ↑ Charles Pringle (Class of 1949). classmates.com. Retrieved on February 7, 2021.
- ↑ Ole Miss Yearbook (Class of 1951), p. 113. e-yearbook.com. Retrieved on February 7, 2021.
- ↑ Ole Miss Yearbook (Class of 1954), p. 43. e-yearbook.com. Retrieved on February 7, 2021.
- ↑ Charles K. Pringle. Retrieved on February 7, 2021.
- ↑ Dr. Charles Pringle, Jr.. https://health.usnews.com/doctors/charles-pringle-505451.+Retrieved on February 7, 2021.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Billy Hathorn, "Challenging the Status Quo: Rubel Lex Phillips and the Mississippi Republican Party (1963-1967)," The Journal of Mississippi History XLVII, November 1985, No. 4, p. 240, 242, 262.
