Edmund H. Driggs Explained

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.

Biography

Born in Brooklyn, he attended the public schools and Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. He became engaged in the casualty-insurance business.[1]

Tenure in Congress

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.

Career after Congress

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.

Death and burial

He died in Brooklyn in 1946, and interred in Cypress Hills Cemetery within the same borough.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.