Thomas Clarke Theaker

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Biography

Theaker was a native of York, Pennsylvania, but moved to Bridgeport, Ohio, in 1830, where he became a wheelwright and machinist.

Elected as a Republican to represent the Seventeenth Congressional District of Ohio in 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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Thomas Clarke Theaker

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