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In 1963, at the age of thirty-two, Pringle ran for state representative in Biloxi on the Republican ticket headed by [[governor|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 Party |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.<ref name=statusquo/>

In 1963, at the age of thirty-two, Pringle ran for state representative in Biloxi on the Republican ticket headed by [[governor|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 Party |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.<ref name=statusquo/>

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. Representativ John Bell Williams, 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|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.<ref name=statusquo>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.</ref>

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|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.<ref name=statusquo>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.</ref>

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