Patrick Francis Baxter (1 October 1891 – 3 April 1959) was an Irish politician from County Cavan.
He was a Teachta Dála (TD) in the 1920s, and later a Senator for over 25 years, serving as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from 1954 to 1957.
After the collapse of the Farmers' Party in the late 1920s, he made three further unsuccessful attempts to return to the Dáil: at the 1932 general election as a Cumann na nGaedheal candidate in Cavan, at the 1933 general election as a National Centre Party candidate in Clare, and as a Fine Gael candidate in Cavan at the 1943 general election.
[3] He was elected in 1934 as a senator for Fine Gael, for a nine-year term, but the Free State Seanad was abolished in 1936.
When the house was re-established, he was re-elected in 1938 to the 2nd Seanad on the Agricultural Panel,[4] and held the seat until his death in office in 1959.