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RILEY, Corinne Boyd, (wife of John Jacob Riley), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Piedmont, Greenville County, S.C., July 4, 1893; attended the public schools; graduated from Converse College, Spartanburg, S.C., 1915; teacher; field representative, South Carolina State Text Book Commission, 1938-1942; associated with Civilian Personnel Office, Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter, S.C., 1942-1944; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-seventh Congress, by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative John J. Riley (April 10, 1962-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for reelection to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962; died on April 12, 1979, in Sumter, S.C.; remains were cremated; ashes interred in Sumter Cemetery, S.C.