Charles Jeanneret (politician) and ferry companies. He was a Hunters Hill alderman and mayor from 1870 to 1871, and served on Sydney City Council from 1886 to 1898. In 1887 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Carcoar. Defeated in 1889, he returned in 1891 but was defeated again in 1894. He went bankrupt in 1897. Jeanneret died in Richmond in 1898. Charles Jeanneret (politician) Charles Edward Jeanneret (9 February 1834 – 23 August 1898) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to dentist Henry Jeanneret and Harriet Merrett. As a boy
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