Corinne Boyd Riley

Corinne Boyd Riley

Corinne Boyd Riley (July 4, 1893 – April 12, 1979) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, wife of John Jacob Riley.

Born in Piedmont, South Carolina, Riley attended the public schools. She graduated from Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1915. She was a teacher. Served as field representative, South Carolina State Text Book Commission from 1938 to 1942. Riley was associated with Civilian Personnel Office, Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, South Carolina from 1942 to 1944.

Riley was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh Congress, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative her husband, John Jacob Riley and served from April 10, 1962 to January 3, 1963. She was not a candidate for reelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962. She died on April 12, 1979, in Sumter, South Carolina. Her remains were cremated; her ashes interred in Sumter Cemetery, South Carolina.

Source

• Corinne Boyd Riley at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

Biography portal

• Corinne Boyd Riley at Find a Grave

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Name	Riley, Corinne Boyd
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Date of birth	July 4, 1893
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Date of death	April 12, 1979
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