Maurice A. Donahue is an American politician who served as President of the Massachusetts Senate

President of the Massachusetts Senate

The President of the Massachusetts Senate is the presiding officer. In the United States Congress, the Vice President of the United States is the ex officio President of the United States Senate. In Massachusetts, however, the President of the Senate is elected from and by the Senators...

 from 1964 to 1971.

Donahue was first elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1950 after spending two years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He became the Senate Majority Leader in 1958 and was elected Senate President in 1964. In 1970 he ran for Governor of Massachusetts

Governor of Massachusetts

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, losing the Democratic nomination to Boston Mayor Kevin H. White. He resigned from the Senate in 1971 to become Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Governmental Services at the University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts

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. In February 1989 the Institute was renamed in his honor and is now known as the UMass Donahue Institute.

Honoring Donahue is the Maurice A. Donohue Elementary School in Holyoke, Massachusetts

Holyoke, Massachusetts

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