Patrick Hamill (April 28, 1817 - January 15, 1895) was a U.S. Congressman from the fourth district of Maryland, serving one term from 1869 - 1871. Hamill attended the common schools in Westernport, Maryland, and engaged in the real estate business and mercantile pursuits, and was collector of taxes in 1841 and 1842. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1843 and 1844, and was a judge of the orphans’ court of Allegany County, Maryland from 1854 until 1869, and elected chief judge in 1867. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress, serving from March 4, 1869 until March 3, 1871, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1870. He later engaged in the real estate business until his death in Oakland, Maryland, and is interred in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
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Preceded by: Francis Thomas Representative of the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland 1869 - 1871 Succeeded by: John Ritchie
