US Congresswoman, Educator. She was a United States Representative from the State of South Carolina. She was born one of two children as Corinne Anderson Boyd to the Reverend George McPherson Boyd (1837-1914), and his wife Corrinne Anderson Boyd (1856-1929), in Piedmont, South Carolina, on July 4, 1893. She also had six half-siblings. She was educated locally and attended the local common public schools and then attended and graduated from the prestigious Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1915. Following her education, she became a teacher and served as a Field Representative of the South Carolina State Text Book Commission from 1938 to 1942. She was also associated with the Civilian Personnel Office at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina, during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. She was married to World War I Veteran and United States Representative John Jacob Riley (1895-1962), who served in the United States Congress from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1949, and from January 3, 1951, until his death on January 1, 1962, at the age of 66. Following his death, she was elected to public office by special election to fill his seat. Her opponent in the Democratic primary was state legislator Martha Elizabeth Thomas "Mattie" Fitzgerald (1894-1981), it was believed to be the first time in South Carolina history that two women had competed against each other in a congressional election. Fitzgerald's challenge of Riley was considered somewhat surprising, as it was tacitly understood among South Carolina's political class that any widow running to succeed her husband would remain unchallenged in the general election. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald claimed that her time as a state legislator made her more qualified to hold the position. Riley was still in mourning for her late husband and did no strenuous campaigning, promising only to pursue his agenda as best she could and to retire at the end of her term. Even so, Riley won the primary by a two-to-one plurality, carrying all eight counties in the district; she would later describe her victory over Fitzgerald as "rather surprising" A Member of the Democratic Party, she then served South Carolina's 2nd District (Eighty-Seventh Congress), in the United States House Of Representatives from April 10, 1962, to January 3, 1963. She was not a candidate for reelection to the Eighty-Eighth Congress in 1962. She retired from politics shortly thereafter. Following her term in the United States Congress, she was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Albert William Watson (1922-1994), on January 3, 1963. In her later years, she was a member of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter in Sumter, South Carolina. She passed away at Tuomey Hospital in Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1979, at the age of 85. Following her death, her memorial services were held at Shelley-Brunson Funeral Home in Sumter, South Carolina, and she was buried in Sumter Cemetery in Sumter, South Carolina. She was survived by her two children, Helen Riley Purdy (1920-1984), and Onan Beverely Riley (1924-1991).