 Darragh was elected as a Republican from Michigan's 11th congressional district to the 57th and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1901 to March 3, 1909.He was not a candidate for renomination in 1908 and again engaged in banking.Darragh died at the age of eighty-six in St. Louis, Michigan and is interred there at Oak Grove Cemetery.