[3] He was Chairman of the Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures in the 80th United States Congress.

Rizley was elected chairman of the credentials committee for the 1952 Republican National Convention, defeating Minnesota delegate Warren E.

[4] He was not a candidate for renomination to the House in 1948 but was unsuccessful for election to the United States Senate.

He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 1, 1956, and received his commission on April 13, 1956.

On March 26, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson certified Rizley involuntarily as disabled in accordance with the act of September 2, 1957, 71 Stat.

[6] Rizley married Ruby Seal in 1916 and they had seven children, one of whom, Hortense, would become actress Claudia Bryar.