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.Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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.
Following his retirement from public office, Driggs was honored with the renaming of 5th Street in Williamsburg as Driggs Avenue.
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