Patrick Hamill (April 28, 1817 – January 15, 1895) was a

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from the fourth district of

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, serving one term from 1869 to 1871. Hamill attended the common schools in

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, 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

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in 1843 and 1844, and was a judge of the orphans’ court of

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, from 1854 until 1869, and elected chief judge in 1867. He was elected as a

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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

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, and is interred in Odd Fellows Cemetery.

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