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Preceded by
  
Name
  
Thomas Theaker

Resigned
  
March 3, 1861

Political party
  
Succeeded by
  

Preceded by
  
Party
  
Appointed by
  
Role
  
U.S. congressman

Resting place
  
Bridgeport

Thomas Clarke Theaker

Born
  
February 4, 1812York, Pennsylvania (
1812-02-04
)

Died
  
July 16, 1883, Oakland, Maryland, United States

Thomas Clarke Theaker (February 4, 1812 – July 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 a 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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