Birthname: | Edmund Hope Driggs |
State: | New York |
District: | 3rd |
Term Start: | December 6, 1897 |
Term End: | March 3, 1901 |
Preceded: | Francis H. Wilson |
Succeeded: | Henry Bristow |
Birth Date: | May 2, 1865 |
Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York, US |
Death Place: | Brooklyn, New York, US |
Resting Place: | Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York |
Party: | Democratic |
Predecessor: | Francis H. Wilson |
Successor: | Henry Bristow |
Edmund Hope Driggs (May 2, 1865 – September 27, 1946) was an American businessman and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from New York from 1897 to 1901.
Born in Brooklyn, he attended the public schools and Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. He became engaged in the casualty-insurance business.[1]
Driggs was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Francis H. Wilson; he was reelected to the Fifty-sixth Congress and served from December 6, 1897, to March 3, 1901.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1900 to the Fifty-seventh Congress, and resumed the casualty-insurance business and also engaged in safety engineering.
He died in Brooklyn in 1946, and interred in Cypress Hills Cemetery within the same borough.[1]