David Riley (politician)

David Riley was born to Susanna Riley.[1] He graduated from the University of Maryland.[2]

Riley was a Democrat. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, representing Harford County from 1872 to 1874.[3][4][5] Riley ran for the Democratic nomination for state delegate in the 1879 election, but lost.[6]

In 1880, Riley was appointed as clerk of the committee on claims.[7] Riley was a delegate to the Maryland State Democratic Convention in 1887.[8]

Riley practiced medicine in Dublin, Maryland, for 40 years.[9] Riley was elected as president of the Harford County Medical Society in 1881.[10] He was appointed as a vaccine physician in his district in 1882.[11]

In 1883-1884 and from 1887 to 1890 and 1891 to 1898, Riley was a trustee of Dublin School No. 13.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]

Riley married and had seven children, Mrs. William Clement, Ella May (married David G. Clement), Mrs. J. M. C. Merrick, Annie, H. S., William T. and F. P.[2][23][24] He lived in Dublin.[7]

Riley died following treatment on July 7, 1901, at the age of 64, at Farmhurst Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. He was interred at Dublin Methodist Episcopal Church in Dublin.[2]