Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949

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Riley, John Jacob

Riley, John Jacob, a Representative from South Carolina; born on a farm near Orangeburg, S.C., February 1, 1895; attended the public schools in Orangeburg County and Orangeburg (S.C.) High School; 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; resumed the real estate and insurance business; is a resident of Sumter, S.C.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Riley, John Jacob," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1740 Original Sources, accessed December 2, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4LEK67RD9ZY59HH.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Riley, John Jacob." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1740, Original Sources. 2 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4LEK67RD9ZY59HH.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Riley, John Jacob' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1740. Original Sources, retrieved 2 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4LEK67RD9ZY59HH.