 He was the chief burgess of St. Marys from 1903 to 1906, president of St. Marys School Board from 1911 to 1936, and a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1916 and 1920.He served as United States Attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania in 1920 and 1921.Driscoll was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth Congress.