He was reelected to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses. Carrigg voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958, defeated by Democrat Stanley A. Prokop.
Carrigg was a congressman who served three terms in the House of Representatives. He voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and lost his re-election bid in 1958 to Democrat Stanley A. Prokop.