Career

Foreign years Prickett was believed to have been the first elected Boise mayor, but recent research has revealed that a Doctor Ephraim Smith preceded him in the office. In 1871 Prickett ran for a full one-year term as Boise mayor as a Radical Republican. He was narrowly defeated by John Hailey, who never assumed the office.

According to city records incumbent mayor Charles Himrod served the ensuing term.

Achievements

• Prickett was declared mayor after the winner of the November 1867 mayoral election, L. B. Lindsay, was disqualified. A new mayoral election was held in January 1868, won by Thomas B. Hart.