[1] He was chair of the Selkirk Board of Management, and a director of the Young Men's Christian Association.
Lowery first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election, and lost to Conservative candidate Daniel McLean by 623 votes in the Winnipeg North's "B" constituency.
He contested Winnipeg North "A" in the 1915 election,[2] and defeated Social Democratic candidate Arthur Beech by 195 votes (Conservative incumbent Joseph P. Foley finished third).
The Liberals won a landslide majority in this election, and Lowery served as a backbench supporter of Tobias Norris's administration for the next five years.
Lowery's brother Edward Wesley[4] was the candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada for Winnipeg North Centre in the 1925 federal election.