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. 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. 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. ==References==