sentences:  Lester was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1889 until his death in Washington, D.C., on June 16, 1906.He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses).He died after an accident in which he fell through a skylight on the roof of the Cairo apartment house, where he resided.