Edmund H. Driggs
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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.
United States Congressional Delegations from New York
These are tables of congressional delegations from New York to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.Over the years, New York has demographically changed so that it is hard to consider each district to be a continuation of the same numbered district before...
. Born in Brooklyn
Brooklyn
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, 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
Francis H. Wilson
Francis Henry Wilson was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Clinton, New York, Wilson lived in Utica, New York, until ten years of age, when he moved with his parents to the Westmoreland farm....
; 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
Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn
Cypress Hills Cemetery was the first non-sectarian/non-denominational cemetery corporation organized in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York City. The Cemetery is run as a non-for-profit organization and is located at 833 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn...
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His grandson Edmund Hope Driggs III married, as his second wife, Audrey Simpson, the daughter of Ernest Aldrich Simpson
Ernest Aldrich Simpson
Ernest Aldrich Simpson was a British shipping executive best known as the second husband of Wallis Simpson, who later would marry the former Edward VIII of the United Kingdom...
and stepdaughter of the future Duchess of Windsor.