Life After Governorship
After his term as Governor ended Briggs returned to his residence and businesses in Jackson County.
In 1860 he made a trip to Colorado during the mining excitement of the time. In 1863 Briggs with his son John and a large group went to the state of Montana, where he remained until 1865 when he returned to Iowa. In 1870 he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa and later was one of the founders of the town of Florence, Nebraska. In 1881 after a very brief illness Briggs died at his son John's residence in Omaha, Nebraska. His death was greatly mourned all over Iowa. Governor Gear issued a proclamation reciting his services to the State, and ordering half-hour guns to be fired and the national flag on the State capitol to be put at half-mast during the day of the funeral.
Although he was originally buried in Omaha, Nebraska he was re-interred in 1909 in the Andrew Cemetery, Andrew, Iowa.
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