[2] Riggs defeated Democratic incumbent Mary Lou Reed and Ust candidate Charles Eberle with 51% of the vote in the general election.
[4][5] He was appointed lieutenant governor by Governor Dirk Kempthorne in January 2001 to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of longtime Lieutenant Governor Butch Otter, who won a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the 2000 election.
Riggs ran for a full term in 2002 but was defeated by State Senator Jim Risch in the Republican primary, ending his tenure as lieutenant governor.
[6] His son, Peter Riggs, served in the Idaho Legislature.
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