Career
Everitt first ran for provincial office in the 1959 election, representing the Social Cr Party of Alberta in the riding of Saint Albert. He unseated incumbent Liberal Arthur Soetaert by a margin of 75 votes. Everitt lost his seat to Progressive Conservative Ernie Jamison by a margin of just over a thousand votes in the 1971 election, as Peter Lougheed"s Progressive Conservatives swept Social Cr from office.
Everitt attempted a comeback in the 1975 election, but finished more than four thousand votes behind Jamison.
Everitt also served as a county councillor in Sturgeon from 1980 until 1992 and on the Sturgeon School Division"s Board of Trustees from 1977 until 1986.
