Joseph C. Pringey

Joseph Colburn Pringey ( May 22nd, 1858 in Somerset, Pennsylvania, † February 11, 1935 in Chandler, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Pringey attended the public schools of his home. In 1870 he moved to Missouri, where he attended a trade school in Sedalia. In 1891 he settled in Chandler in the former Oklahoma Territory. There he was active both in agriculture and in the insurance and banking.

Politically Pringey member of the Republican Party. In 1893 he was a member of the Territorial Senate. At the same time he was also curator of the University of Oklahoma in Norman. In 1900 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was nominated to the President William McKinley for a second term. From 1912 to 1920, Pringey File Clerk in Lincoln County.

1920 Pringey was elected against incumbent Thomas D. McKeown in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There, however, he was able to complete only one legislative period between 4 March 1921 and 3 March 1923 because he lost against McKeown in the elections of 1922. After his time in Congress was Pringey 1923-1924 acting postmaster of Chandler. Afterwards he worked until his death in 1935 in agriculture.