Posey Green Lester was a U.S. Representative

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 from Virginia

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Born near the town of Floyd, Virginia

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, Lester attended the common schools and the Jacksonville graded school at Floyd.
He engaged in teaching in Floyd County, Virginia

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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

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, in 1883, and editor in chief in 1920.

Lester was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Fifty-first

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 and Fifty-second

52nd United States Congress

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 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

Roanoke, Virginia

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, 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.

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