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Posey Green Lester (March 12, 1850 – February 9, 1929) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia .
Biography [ edit ]
Born near the town of Floyd, Virginia , Lester attended the common schools and the Jacksonville graded school at Floyd.
He engaged in teaching in Floyd County, Virginia .
Ordained a minister in the primitive or old-school Baptist Church in 1876.
He became associate editor of Zion's Landmark , a church paper published at Wilson, North Carolina , in 1883, and editor in chief in 1920.
Lester was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1893).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1892.
He resumed his ministerial duties in Floyd, until 1921, when he moved to Roanoke, Virginia , and served as pastor of the Primitive Baptist Church until his death in that city on February 9, 1929. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
Electoral history [ edit ]
1888 ; Lester was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 52.5% of the vote, defeating Republican John D. Blackwell.
1890 ; Lester was re-elected with 82.07% of the vote, defeating Independents S. C. Adams and J. Ring.
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