William H. Lancaster [SEP] position held
William H. Lancaster
William H. Lancaster (born 1931) was a member of the California State Assembly.
Lancaster was born in Bakersfield, California and raised in Sacramento, California and Los Angeles County. He entered politics with election to the Duarte, California city council in 1958. He also served several terms as mayor of that city.
Lancaster was elected to the California State Assembly in a special election in June 1972. The election was held because Pete Schabarum had resigned to become a member of the Los Angeles County
this area, a position he kept when the area later returned to English control. Farrer and Curwen remark:
William de Lancaster no longer held anything in Kentdale of Roger de Mowbray; but he appears to have held his lands in Westmarieland and Kentdale of Morevill by rendering Noutgeld of £14 6s. 3d. per annum, and some 16 carucates of land in nine vills in Kentdale as farmer under Morevill. In 1166 William de Lancaster I held only two knight's fees, of the new feoffment of Roger de Mowbray