Thomas Clarke Theaker

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Thomas Clarke Theaker (Feb 4, 1812 - Jul 16, 1883) was an U. S. Congressman and commissioner of the US Patent Office.

He was a native of York, Pennsylvania, but moved to Bridgeport, Ohio in 1830, where he became a wheelwright and machinist. Elected as Republican to represent the seventeenth Congressional District of Ohio to the 36th Congress. He failed to win re-election in 1860, but was appointed to a seat on the US Patent Office's Board of Appeals. On August 15, 1865, he was appointed commissioner of the US Patent Office, a post he held until his resignation in January 1868.

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• Thomas Clarke Theaker Memorial at Find A Grave