Career
He also served as a municipal councilor. Meston ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1963 Alberta general election. He was nominated to stand as Social Cr candidate in the new electoral district of Three Hills on April 20, 1963.
Meston died on November 22, 1963 in Drumheller, Alberta.
He died before the first sitting of the 15th Alberta Legislative Assembly and never got to take his seat.