Ya yi aiki a matsayin Gwamnan New Jersey daga 1947 zuwa 1954 inda ya kasance mai goyon bayan New Jersey Turnpike da Garden State Parkway. Daga lokacin da aka gina su, waɗannan manyan hanyoyin sufuri guda biyu za su canza "Garden State" na noma zuwa jihar da ta fi yawan jama'a a cikin ƙungiyar. An kira Driscoll Bridge a kan Garden State Parkway a fadin Kogin Raritan don girmama shi, kuma an kasa fadada shirin da aka tsara na New Jersey Turnpike (kamar yadda yake a cikin yanayi zuwa Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension) zai kuma dauki sunansa. Driscoll ya yi aiki a matsayin wakili ga Jam'iyyar Republican National Convention daga New Jersey a
1948 da 1952, kuma an yi la'akari da shi a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kasa a taron na 1952.