X Patent Signed by President Andrew Jackson
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NAME AND DATE PATENT
Gum Elastic Bathing Cot, 24 November
1832 by Walter C. Palmer, M.D.
The Patent is signed by:
President Andrew Jackson
Secretary of State Edward Livingston
Attorney General R. B. Taney
THE X-NUMBER IS 7301X
Roger Brooke Taney (1777-1864) was
briefly Attorney General (1831-1833) and was Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court from 1836 to 1864. His work is generally clouded by his decision
in the Dred Scott case.
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