Edmund H. Driggs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdmund H. Driggs
American politician
Date of Birth: 02-May-1865
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Date of Death: 27-Sep-1946
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Edmund H. Driggs
- 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, and interred in Cypress Hills Cemetery within the same borough.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.
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