Leverett DeVeber

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Leverett DeVeber (1849–1926) was an Alberta politician.

He was born in New Brunswick in 1849.

Prior to moving out west, he was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and worked at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

In 1883 he arrived in Fort Macleod and became a surgeon for the North West Mounted Police.

In 1898 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and was re-elected in 1902. Dr. DeVerber served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Alberta Liberal Party in the Lethbridge Provincial electoral district from 1905 to 1906. In that short time he served as a cabinet minister in the Alexander Rutherford government.

In 1906 he was appointed to the Canadian Senate. He was appointed by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier and represented Lethbridge as a Liberal until his death.

He died in 1926, in Aylmer, Quebec. At the time of his death, he was married and had two children.

He has a mountain named in his honor, Mount DeVeber, situated southwest of Grande Cache, Alberta.

Preceded by: Charles Alexander Magrath	MLA Lethbridge, NWT 1898–1905	Succeeded by: District Abolished
Preceded by: New District	MLA Lethbridge, AB 1905–1906	Succeeded by: William Simmons