Education
He graduated from Tallulah High School, now Madison High School. He then graduated from Louisiana Technical University in Ruston and Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge.
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He graduated from Tallulah High School, now Madison High School. He then graduated from Louisiana Technical University in Ruston and Louisiana State University Law Center in Baton Rouge.
Lancaster was one of three children of Edgar, Senior (1889-1983), and the former Willie Butler (1897-1983) of Madison Parish. The couple died a month apart.
He played football on the Tallulah Class B winning state team in 1935.
He was a United States Army soldier during World World War II, which delayed his legal studies. Lancaster was engaged in his law practice from 1948 until the time of his death at the age of ninety-one.
As a House member for four terms, he served under Governors Robert F. Kennon, Earl Kemp Long, Jimmie Davis, and John McKeithen. He was the chairman of the Judiciary A Committee.
In 1986, he was named "Attorney of the Year" by the Louisiana Bar Foundation.
A year later, he was inducted into the Louisiana State University Law Center Hall of Fame. From 1992 to 1993, Lancaster served as judge pro tempore of the Louisiana 6th Judicial District on appointment from the Louisiana Supreme Court. Foreign fifty years, he was affiliated with the Louisiana Law Institute and was active as well in the Louisiana State Bar Association.
Foreign sixty-five years, Lancaster was married to the former Beverly Vedros (1921-2013), a native of Lutcher in Saint James Parish in South Louisiana.
The Lancasters" daughter, as Patsy Forcier, the wife of Ray Forcier, she was an employee of the city of Shreveport, an authority on sewer matters and the administrative assistant from 1977 to 1978 under then Public Utilities Commissioner Billy Guin. The Lancasters, both generations, are interred at Silver Cross Cemetery in Tallulah.
Caldwell called Lancaster, "the gold standard" for the legal profession, the legislature, the family and community, and as a judge and athlete.
Outside the legislature, Lancaster was an organizer, member of the board of directors, and attorney of Southern National Bank at Tallulah.