Edmund H. Driggs

Who was Edmund H. Driggs?

Edmund Hope Driggs 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.