About Edmund H. Driggs
Lived 1865 – 1946 (aged 81). Edmund H. Driggs was an American politician.
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.
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.
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American politician (1865–1946)
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Edmund H. Driggs was born on 2 May 1865 in Brooklyn.
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Edmund H. Driggs died on 27 September 1946 in Brooklyn.
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Edmund H. Driggs was a politician.
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