Edmund H. Driggs
Edmund H. Driggs | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 3rd district | |
In office December 6, 1897 – March 3, 1901 | |
Preceded by | Francis H. Wilson |
Succeeded by | Henry Bristow |
Personal details | |
Born | Brooklyn, New York | May 2, 1865
Died | September 27, 1946 Brooklyn, New York | (aged 81)
Resting place | Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York |
Political party | Democratic |
Edmund Hope Driggs (May 2, 1865 – September 27, 1946) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Brooklyn, he attended the public schools and Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. He became engaged in the casualty-insurance business.
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; interment was in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn.
His grandson Edmund Hope Driggs III married, as his second wife, Audrey Simpson, the daughter of Ernest Aldrich Simpson and stepdaughter of the future Duchess of Windsor.
References
- United States Congress. "Edmund H. Driggs (id: D000497)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- 1865 births
- 1946 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
- Driggs family
- Burials at Cypress Hills Cemetery (New York City)
- People from Brooklyn
- Adelphi University alumni
- New York (state) Democrats
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives