Neil Riser
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| Member of the Louisiana Senate from the 32nd district |
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Assumed office January 14, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Noble Ellington |
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Hartwell Neil Riser Jr. April 25, 1962 Columbia, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Vicki Smith |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
University of Louisiana, Monroe (BS) |
Hartwell Neil Riser Jr., known as Neil Riser (born April 25, 1962), is a funeral home owner in Columbia in Caldwell Parish in northeastern Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2013 special election to fill Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat vacated by Rodney Alexander. He was defeated in the runoff election held on November 16, 2013, by fellow Republican Vance McAllister, a political newcomer from Swartz, who held the seat for only thirteen months.
Riser is an announced candidate for state treasurer to succeed John Neely Kennedy, the U. S. senator from Louisiana. A special election will be held to choose Kennedy's successor as treasurer on October 14, 2017.
Riser's grandfather, A. Hartwell Riser, was a city alderman from 1942 to 1950 in Ruston in Lincoln Parish. Riser was born in Columbia to Hartwell Neil Riser, Sr. (1934–1985), and the former Lillian Marie Gore (born 1937), who married in Caldwell Parish in 1956. After her husband's death, Lillian Riser married Herschel Gentry, Jr., of Monroe. Neil Riser graduated in 1980 from Caldwell Parish High School in Columbia.
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