Leonard "Len" F. Werry | |
Birth Date: | May 30, 1927 |
Birth Place: | Cereal, Alberta |
Death Place: | near Edson, Alberta[1] |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
Constituency: | Calgary Bowness |
Term Start: | May 23, 1967 |
Term End: | August 29, 1971 |
Predecessor: | Charles Johnston |
Successor: | District abolished |
Constituency1: | Calgary-Foothills |
Term Start1: | August 30, 1971 |
Term End1: | February 25, 1973 |
Successor1: | Stewart McCrae |
Predecessor1: | New District |
Office2: | Minister of Telephones and Utilities |
Term Start2: | September 10, 1971 |
Term End2: | February 25, 1973 |
Predecessor2: | Raymond Reierson |
Successor2: | Roy Farran |
Leonard Frank Werry (May 30, 1927 – February 25, 1973) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 until his death in 1973 and was a cabinet minister in the government of Alberta, of Premier Peter Lougheed from 1971 to 1973.
Werry ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the Northwest Calgary riding of Calgary Bowness in the 1967 Alberta general election. He defeated former Member of Parliament Charles Johnston in a hotly contested election to pick up that seat for the opposition Progressive Conservatives.[2]
Werry ran for a second term in office in Calgary-Foothills in the 1971 Alberta general election as Calgary Bowness was abolished through redistricting. He picked up the new riding with a more comfortable result.[3]
The Progressive Conservative party formed government in 1971. Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Werry as Minister of Telephones and Utilities. Werry died on February 25, 1973, when his car collided with a truck on Highway 16, approximately nine miles west of Edson, Alberta.[4] [5]