Patrick Hamill was a U.S. Congressman

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 from the fourth district

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 of Maryland

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, serving one term from 1869—1871.

Hamill attended the common schools in Westernport, Maryland

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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 Maryland House of Delegates

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

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

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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 Oakland, Maryland

Oakland, Maryland

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, and is interred in Odd Fellows Cemetery

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