| Office: | Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann |
| Term Start: | 22 July 1954 |
| Term End: | 22 May 1957 |
| Predecessor: | Liam Ó Buachalla |
| Successor: | Liam Ó Buachalla |
| Office1: | Senator |
| Term Start1: | 27 September 1938 |
| Term End1: | 3 April 1959 |
| Constituency1: | Agricultural Panel |
| Office2: | Senator |
| Term Start2: | 12 December 1934 |
| Term End2: | 29 May 1936 |
| Office3: | Teachta Dála |
| Term Start3: | August 1923 |
| Term End3: | September 1927 |
| Constituency3: | Cavan |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1891 |
| Birth Place: | County Cavan, Ireland |
| Death Place: | County Cavan, Ireland |
| Party: | Clann na Talmhan |
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.[1]
Baxter was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1923 general election, when he won a seat as Farmers' Party TD for Cavan in the 4th Dáil.[2] He had stood unsuccessfully in the 1922 general election, but after topping the poll in 1923 he was re-elected at the June 1927 general election with his vote halved. He lost his seat at the September 1927 general election.
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.[2] He was a Clann na Talmhan senator from 1938 onwards.