Hartwell Neil Riser, Jr., known as Neil Riser , 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 Louisianas 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.
Risers 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. , and the former Lillian Marie Gore , who married in Caldwell Parish in 1956. After her husbands 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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