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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