Byron Delano Hamlin was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served in the State Senate as a member of the Democratic party, representing the 18th district from 1853 to 1855.

[2] His sister Jenette married Moses Crow, a Reverend and professor at Allegheny College in Meadville, who invited Byron to attend school there.

[2] However, Moses and Jenette would die of Typhoid fever in 1843, with Byron's brother Orlo convincing him to drop out and start practicing law, and by 1846 he was named to the bar of McKean County.

[1][2] In 1854 he was named to the board of the Bradford Hospital, and spent the rest of his life engaged in various business ventures and as a corporate attorney.

[1] At the outbreak of the American Civil War Hamlin volunteered to join the Union Army but following his medical evaluation was deemed unfit for service.