Len Werry
{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Leonard "Len" F. Werry
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| imagesize = 150px
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| birth_date = May 30, 1927
| birth_place =Cereal, Alberta
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|2|25|1927|5|30}}
| death_place=near Edson, Alberta{{cite news |title=Alberta minister Len Werry dies in car accident |work=The Montreal Gazette |agency=Canadian Press |date=February 26, 1973 |location=Edson, AB |page=41 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19730226&id=QIMuAAAAIBAJ&pg=815,7644229}}
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| 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
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1967&Constit=Calgary-Bowness| title=Calgary Bowness results 1967 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=November 22, 2009}}
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.{{cite web | url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1971&Constit=Calgary-Foothills | title=Calgary-Foothills results 1971 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=November 22, 2009 | archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208200433/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1971&Constit=Calgary-Foothills | archive-date=December 8, 2010 | url-status=dead }}
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.{{cite news |title=Len Werry dies in highway collision |work=Calgary Herald |date=February 26, 1973 |location=Edmonton |pages=1–2 |id={{ProQuest|2258338497}}}}{{cite journal|title=Cost and Management|author1=Society of Industrial Accountants of Canada|author2=Society of Management Accountants of Canada|author3=Canadian Society of Cost Accountants|author4=Canadian Society of Cost Accountants & Industrial Engineers|journal=CMA: The Management Accounting Magazine|date=1973|volume=47-48|publisher=Society of Management Accountants of Canada|issn=0010-9592|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjkcAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=November 16, 2014}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
- {{AlbertaMLAbio|ID=0438}}
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Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs
Category:Members of the Executive Council of Alberta
Category:Road incident deaths in Canada
Category:Accidental deaths in Alberta
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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