Len Werry Explained

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.

Political career

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]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Alberta minister Len Werry dies in car accident . The Montreal Gazette . Canadian Press . February 26, 1973 . Edson, AB . 41 .
  2. Web site: Calgary Bowness results 1967 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . November 22, 2009.
  3. Web site: Calgary-Foothills results 1971 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . November 22, 2009 . https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208200433/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1971&Constit=Calgary-Foothills . December 8, 2010 . dead .
  4. News: Len Werry dies in highway collision . . February 26, 1973 . Edmonton . 1–2 . .
  5. Cost and Management. Society of Industrial Accountants of Canada. Society of Management Accountants of Canada. Canadian Society of Cost Accountants. Canadian Society of Cost Accountants & Industrial Engineers. CMA: The Management Accounting Magazine. 1973. 47-48. Society of Management Accountants of Canada. 0010-9592. November 16, 2014.