Thomas Clarke Theaker

Thomas Clarke Theaker (February 4, 1812 – July 16, 1883) was an American politician who served one term as U.S. Congressman from 1859 to 1861. He also served as commissioner of the United States Patent Office from 1865 to 1868.

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

Congress Elected as a Republican to represent the Seventeenth Congressional District of Ohio in the Thirty-Sixth Congress.

Later career He failed to win re-election in 1860 and was later 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.

Death and burial He died in Oakland, Maryland on July 16, 1883, at the age of 71. He was interred in Weeks Cemetery in Bridgeport, Ohio.