Edmund H. Driggs

Edmund Hope Driggs ( born 2 May 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, † September 27, 1946 ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1901 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edmund Hope Driggs was born during the last months of the civil war in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. He attended public schools and the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. He then worked in the casualty insurance business. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. He was born on December 6, 1897 in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Francis H. Wilson. In the following congressional elections of 1898 he was elected for a full term in the U.S. House of Representatives. However, he suffered at his renewed candidacy in 1900, a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1901 from the Congress of. He then pursued the casualty insurance business further, but also worked in security technology. He died on 27 September 1946 in Brooklyn and was interred in the Cypress Hills Cemetery.