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Jack Donahue (politician)
John Leo Donahue, Jr., known as Jack Donahue (born August 19, 1944) is a building contractor and philanthropist in Mandeville, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from District 11 (St. Tammany and Tangipahoa parishes). A runaway winner in the nonpartisan blanket primary held on October 20, 2007, Donahue, with 64.5 percent of the ballots, defeated fellow Republican Pete Schneider of Slidell,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Election returns, October 20, 2007 ) 〕 a term-limited member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Donahue carried the backing of the outgoing senator, Tom Schedler, also of Mandeville and similarly term-limited under Louisiana law. Late in 2010, Schedler became the Louisiana Secretary of State.
==Early years, education, business==
Donahue, a native of the New Orleans area, was born to John L. Donahue, Sr. (1920–1993),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕 a contractor, and the former Rita Marie De Lesseps (1922–1993),〔 a real estate agent and homemaker. The parents died within six months of each other. Donahue has a brother, Terrence Michael Donahue (born 1953), and two sisters, Kathleen Marie Donahue (born 1942) and Patricia Donahue (born 1956), all of Mandeville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Obituaries – Orleans Parish, Louisiana", updated 2005 )〕 He received a degree in civil engineering in 1967 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He then pursued graduate studies in advanced foundation design from Tulane University in New Orleans. In 1970, Donahue and his father formed Spartan Building Corporation. In 1979, Donahue started his own firm, the still extant Jack Donahue Contractors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="LSU Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Hall of Distinction: John "Jack" Donahue, Jr., 2006" )〕
In 1986, Donahue joined his friend Robert F. Favret in DonahueFavret Contractors, Inc. The firm has sixty employees, with $70 million in annual sales. It is the largest construction company on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain. DonahueFavret clients have included Albertson’s, Pep Boys, Target, Circuit City, Lowe's, Embassy Suites, Holiday Inn, Best Western, the United States Coast Guard, and the U.S. Postal Service. The firm has garnered prestigious awards, including a citation from the Vieux Carré Commission for restoration of historic buildings in New Orleans. It has garnered the Platinum Step Award granted by his fellow contractors.〔 In 2007, Donahue received $11 million in constructions contracts from the gambling industry in Louisiana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Terry Baquet, "Public, gaming sources of income disclosed" )〕
Donahue is a founding member of local and state chapters of the trade association, the Associated Builders and Contractors and a former national board member of the organization. Donahue is chairman of DFV; his son, John L. Donahue, III (born September 28, 1966), is president, and Robert Favret is executive vice president and vice president of estimating. Donahue's second wife, the former Maura Walsh (born July 9, 1950), is the company vice president of business development.〔 Jack and Maura Donahue have a blended family of six children and, as of 2009, sixteen grandchildren. Maura is also a vice chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Fighting for Your Business )〕
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