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He 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 36th Congress . He failed to win re-election in 1860, but was appointed to a seat on the US Patent Office's Board of Appeals. On August 15, 1865, he was appointed commissioner of the US Patent Office, a post he held until his resignation in January 1868.


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