Jack Donahue (politician)

John Leo Donahue, Jr., known as Jack Donahue is a building contractor and philanthropist in Mandeville, Louisiana, who is a Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from District. 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, a termlimited member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. Donahue carried the backing of the outgoing senator, Tom Schedler, also of Mandeville and similarly termlimited under Louisiana law. Late in 2010, Schedler became the Louisiana Secretary of State.

Donahue, a native of the New Orleans area, was born to John L. Donahue, Sr. , a contractor, and the former Rita Marie De Lesseps , a real estate agent and homemaker. The parents died within six months of each other. Donahue has a brother, Terrence Michael Donahue , and two sisters, Kathleen Marie Donahue and Patricia Donahue , all of Mandeville. 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. 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 Albertsons, Pep Boys, Target, Cir

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