 Driggs was elected as a Republican becoming the first person to represent Michigan's 6th congressional district to the 38th, 39th, and 40th Congresses, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1869.He was one of the committee members appointed to accompany the body of President Abraham Lincoln to Springfield, Illinois, for interment.Driggs was injured by a fall on the ice in the winter of 1875–1876, as a result of which he died in East Saginaw.