is also spelled "Kentzing". Later years and death After leaving Oregon he went to Washington, D.C. and worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an agent. In that capacity, he dealt with the Santee Sioux in the Iowa Territory during the Inkpaduta affair in 1857. Prichette later served as a United States Consul to Fiji, and died aboard the British flagged brig Rona en route from Sydney to California via Huaheine in the Society Islands. He died from an unknown ailment on April 12, 1869, at the age of 68 and was buried at sea. References External links Governor Kintzing Pritchette's Administration: Biographical Note from the Oregon State Archives Oregon State Archives Governors of Oregon Territory Secretaries of State of Michigan 1800 births Politicians from Detroit Secretaries of State of Oregon 1869 deaths Politicians from Philadelphia 19th-century American politicians