Neal Winston Foster is a member of the Alaska House of Representatives

Alaska House of Representatives

The Alaska House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. The House is composed of 40 members, each of whom represents a district of about 15,673 people . Members serve two-year terms without term limits...

, representing the 39th District, which is centered around Nome, Alaska

Nome, Alaska

Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the...

. He has served in the House since November 15, 2009. He was appointed to the House to replace his father, Richard Foster, who had died in office the previous month. In the 27th Alaska State Legislature, Foster joined along with the other three Democrats from Western Alaska, Bryce Edgmon

Bryce Edgmon

Bryce Edgmon is a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 37th District since 2006. Before the beginning of the 26th Legislature in January 2008 Representative Edgmon, along with Democrats Rep. Reggie Joule and Rep. Bob Herron, began caucusing with the Republicans...

, Bob Herron

Bob Herron

Bob Herron is a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 38th District since 2008. Before the beginning of the 26th Legislature in January 2008 Representative Herron, along with Democrats Rep. Reggie Joule and Rep. Bryce Edgmon, began caucusing with the Republicans...

 and Reggie Joule

Reggie Joule

Reggie Joule is a Democratic member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 40th District since 1996. Before the beginning of the 26th Legislature in January 2008 Representative Joule, along with Democrats Rep. Bryce Edgmon and Rep. Bob Herron, began caucusing with the Republicans...

, as members in the Republican-led majority caucus in the House.

Neal Foster, along with Cathy Muñoz

Cathy Muñoz

Catherine Nora Engstrom Muñoz is a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives, who has since 2008 represented the 4th District. She is currently serving as Co-Chair of the Community & Regional Affairs Committee, Vice-Chair of the Education Committee, and is a member of the...

, are both third-generation members of the Alaska Legislature

Alaska Legislature

The Alaska Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a bicameral institution, consisting of the lower Alaska House of Representatives, with 40 members, and the upper house Alaska Senate, with 20 members...

. Foster's grandfather, also named Neal W. Foster (1916–1979) and nicknamed "Willie," served one term apiece in the Territorial and State Senates during the 1950s and 1960s.