Michael Donohoe was born in
Killeshandra,
County Cavan, 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
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 was interred in
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in
Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania. ==References==