Andrew Holman Hamilton (June 7, 1834 – May 9, 1895) was a politician from Indiana

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 who served in the United States House of Representatives

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. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana

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, June 7, 1834, attended the common schools and graduated from Wabash College

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 in Crawfordsville

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 in 1854. Hamilton studied law at Harvard University

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 and after being admitted to the bar in 1859, he began to practice law in Fort Wayne. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879). After his term in the House, he resumed the practice of law and died in Fort Wayne on May 9, 1895. He is interred in Lindenwood Cemetery.