Albert Lester (c. 1803 – March 14, 1867) was an American lawyer and politician.

Lester removed fromLitchfield, Connecticut, to Canandaigua.

He was aDemocratic member of theNew York State Senate (7th D.) from 1844 to 1847, sitting in the67th,68th,69th and70th New York State Legislatures. On February 12, 1847, Lester was electedPresident pro tempore of the State Senate, to preside during the absence of the Lieutenant Governor. InMay 1847, Lt. Gov.Addison Gardiner was elected to theNew York Court of Appeals and took office on July 5. Gardiner thus vacated the office of lieutenant governor—who isex officio President of the State Senate—and Lester became ActingLieutenant Governor of New York. Urged by GovernorJohn Young, the State Legislature passed on September 27 a law to hold a special election for lieutenant governor at theNew York state election, 1847 to fill the vacancy, andHamilton Fish was elected to take office on January 1, 1848.

Lester died inCanandaigua (town), New York, on March 14, 1867. He was buried at the West Avenue Cemetery inCanandaigua.

• The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge by Jared Sparks, Francis Bowen & George Partridge Sanger (Gray and Bowen, 1847; page 245)
• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 32, 134ff and 143; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• [1] Political Graveyard
• [2] Gravestone info, transcribed at NY GenWeb
• Political History of the State of New York from January 1, 1841, to January 1, 1847, Vol III, including the Life of Silas Wright byJabez Delano Hammond (Hall & Dickson, Syracuse NY, 1848; pages 367f)
• The Regents of the University of the State of New York: 1784-1959 compiled by Albert Bickmore Corey (University of the State of New York, 1959; pages 23 and 33)

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• 1867 deaths
• Lieutenant governors of New York (state)
• New York (state) state senators
• Politicians from Canandaigua, New York
• Politicians from Litchfield, Connecticut
• 19th-century members of the New York State Legislature

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