Background
Donohoe, Michael was born on February 22, 1864 in Killeshandra, Ireland.
United States representative politician
Donohoe, Michael was born on February 22, 1864 in Killeshandra, Ireland.
He attended the schools of Ireland and a private classical school, and taught as principal of a national school from January 1885 until October 1886.
He was an Irish Catholic Democrat. He immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 8, 1886. He worked as a real-estate broker, and engaged in banking and in the manufacture of glassware.
Donohoe was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914. He was a candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1931.
He also served as director of Northwestern General Hospital from 1893 to 1943, and as a trustee of Temple University. He was the real-estate assessor for the city of Philadelphia from April 15, 1919, to March 31, 1946, when he retired.
He died in Philadelphia in 1958, and is buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
Member 62d and 63d Congresses (1911-1915), 5th Pennsylvania