Edmund H. Driggs

Edmund Hope Driggs 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.

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.