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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaJohn Jacob RILEY
(1895-1962)
RILEY, John Jacob,
(husband of Corinne Boyd Riley), a Representative from South
Carolina; born on a farm near Orangeburg, S.C., February 1, 1895;
attended the public schools in Orangeburg County; was graduated
from Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1915; taught in the
Orangeburg city schools 1915-1917, and at Clemson (S.C.)
Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1917 and 1918; during the
First World War served in the United States Navy as a seaman,
second class, and as a yeoman, third class, in 1918 and 1919;
engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Sumter, S.C.,
1919-1945; secretary of a building and loan association 1923-1945;
delegate to Democratic State conventions 1928-1944; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses (January 3,
1945-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1948; elected to the Eighty-second and to the five succeeding
Congresses and served from January 3, 1951, until his death at
Surfside, near Myrtle Beach, S.C., January 1, 1962; interment in
Sumter Cemetery, Sumter, S.C.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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