Thomas Clarke Theaker

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Thomas Clarke Theaker (February 4, 1812July 16, 1883) was a U. S. Congressman and commissioner of the United States Patent Office.

Theaker 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 Thirty-Sixth Congress. He failed to win re-election in 1860, but was appointed to a seat on the U.S. Patent Office's Board of Appeals. On August 15, 1865, he was appointed commissioner of the Patent Office, a post he held until his resignation in January 1868.

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NAME Theaker, Thomas Clarke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION U. S. Congressman and commissioner of the US Patent Office
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH York, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1883
PLACE OF DEATH