Charles Keyser

Charles Christopher Keyser (6 December 1871–30 October 1965) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1905.

Born at a timber station in the Vasse, Charles Keyser was the son of American timber contractor and master builder Charles Donat Keyser. Apprenticed in the printing trade, he followed a variety of professions in his youth. On 21 April 1898 he married Lucy Sanderson in Ballarat, Victoria (Australia). They would have three sons and five daughters.

In 1898, Keyser was appointed assistant to the Town Clerk at Albany, and was appointed acting Town Clerk in 1901. Keyser became active in the Labour movement, joining the Labor party and helping to form an Albany branch of the Political Labour League. On June 28 1904, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Albany. He held the seat until the election of 27 October 2005, when he was defeated by Edward Barnett. On

From 1906 to 1911, Keyser was secretary of the Greenbushes Road Board. He was then Town Clerk for Wagin until 1929, during which time he unsuccessfully contested the Legislative Assembly seat of Wagin on 29 September 1917. He was secretary of the Murray Road Board from 1929 until his retirement in 1935. He then moved to Victoria, dying at Bentleigh on 30 October 1965.

References

• Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume One, 1870–1930 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0730738140.

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