Education
Born near the town of Floyd, Virginia, Lester attended the common schools and the Jacksonville graded school at Floyd.
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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 was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.
1888. Lester was elected to the United States. House of Representatives with 52.5% of the vote, defeating Republican John Doctorate. Blackwell.
1890; Lester was re-elected with 82.07% of the vote, defeating Independents South. C. Adams and J. Ring.