Michael Donohoe (February 22, 1864January 17, 1958) of

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was a

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from

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from 1911 to 1915. He was an

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Democrat.

Biography

Michael Donohoe was born in

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, Ireland. He attended a private classical school, and taught as principal of a national school from January 1885 until October 1886. He immigrated to the

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and settled in

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, 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

in 1931. He also served as director of Northwestern General Hospital from 1893 to 1943, and as a trustee of

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. 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 was interred in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in

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References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Donohoe, Michael 1864 births 1958 deaths Politicians from Philadelphia Politicians from County Cavan Irish emigrants to the United States Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania People from Killeshandra 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives