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James Reid Pringle was the thirtieth intendant (mayor) of
Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...
, serving one term from 1830 to 1831. Pringle was born in 1782 to Robert Pringle and Mary Reid. Pringle represented St. Philip's and St. Michael's parishes (i.e., the Charleston area) in South Carolina General Assembly from 1808 to 1813. He then served three sessions in the South Carolina Senate from 1814 to 1819 and served as the president of the Senate starting in 1818. He resigned when he was appointed as United States Collector for the Port of Charleston in 1819. He was elected intendant on September 6, 1830, in what was described as "one of the hottest elections ever contested in Charleston" in a race between the Unionists (Pringle) and Nullifiers (
Henry L. Pinckney Henry Laurens Pinckney (September 24, 1794February 3, 1863) was a United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from South Carolina, and the son of Charles Pinckney (governor), Charles Pinckney and Mary Eleanor Laurens. Born in ...
). Both candidates supported President Andrew Jackson, but the issue of nullification predominated the contest. The turnout for the election was thought to have been the highest ever for a municipal contest; Pringle secured 838 votes while Laurens got 754. He served a single term before being beaten by the same candidate, Henry L. Pinckney, in September 1831. Pringle was nominated for another term as Collector of Customs for Charleston in January 1832 in anticipation of the end of his current term on January 29, 1832. He was nominated again for the same post in anticipation of the end of his current term on January 29, 1840. He died on July 11, 1840, and is buried in St. Michael's Episcopal churchyard.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pringle, James R. American people of Scottish descent Mayors of Charleston, South Carolina Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives 1782 births 1840 deaths 19th-century American legislators