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1 J. Pat. Off. Soc'y 584 (1918-1919)
Edmund Burke, Commissioner of Patents 1845 to 1849

handle is hein.journals/jpatos1 and id is 620 raw text is: 584 JOURNAL OF THE PATENT OFFICE SOCIETY. EDMUND BURKE, Commissioner of Patents, 1845 to 1849. By N. J. BRUMBAUCH. The second Commissioner of Patents was born at West- minster, Vermont, January 23, 1809. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1829, practicing at Newport, New Hampshire. He established the New Hampshire Argus and edited it for several years. He was elected as a democrat to the 26th, 27th and 28th Congresses, 1839 to 1845. Appointed' Commissioner of Patents by Presi- dent Polk May 5, 1.845, he served ably and faithfully in this office until May 9, 1849, after which he became for a brief period associate editor of the Union in Washington, D. C., and later resumed the practice of law at Newport, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts. His death occurred at Newport, New Hampshire, in 1882. At the beginning of his administration the examining force consisted of two principal and two assistant exam- iners, the principals being 'Charles G. Page and W. P. N. Fitzgerald, and the classes of invention were twenty-two in number. In his first report to Congress, February 24, 1846, he urged legislation authorizing the Chief Clerk to act as Commissioner of Patents in the absence of the Commis- sioner, giving the Commissioner power to enlarge the claim of the patentee in a reissue, and reducing the fees required of foreign inventors. The Republic of Texas having become part of the United States, he urged Con- gress to provide for the transfer of the records of the Patent Office of Texas to this Office. This allusion to Texas is interesting as showing the wisdom of the found- ers of that great state in their appreciation of inventions and inventors. In the report for 1846, the Commissioner says: The operations of this Office during the past year prove, as the circle of every year proves, that the inventor is ever the benefactor of his race. His genius bestows its favors on all. The manufacturer, the mechanic, the agricultur- ist, the merchant, all are the recipients of the benefits which are ever flowing from his toils, energies, and some-

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