Alvin Victor "Honest Vic" Donahey (July 7, 1873 – April 8, 1946) was an American Democratic Party politician from Ohio.

He attended the public schools of Tuscarawas County, and left high school in his junior year to receive training as a printer; he worked at the New Philadelphia Times from 1893 to 1905, and advanced from journeyman to foreman to associate editor before becoming owner of his own printing company.

[3] Donahey also vetoed a Ku Klux Klan-backed bill that would have mandated daily Bible reading in public schools.

[3] In addition, he vetoed a bill promoted by the Anti-Saloon League that would have required individuals convicted of crimes, primarily those convicted of possessing or consuming alcohol, to perform manual labor if they had been assessed fines which had gone unpaid.

[3] Instead, Donahey pardoned more than two thousand convicts who were serving time in jails and workhouses, arguing that enforcement of the Prohibition amendment disproportionately affected the poor.

In 1940 Democrats in Ohio asked him to consider running for president as a favorite son in an effort to aid Franklin D. Roosevelt's bid for a third term, but he declined.

[12][13] His son, John W. Donahey, served a term as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.

[12][13] His brother William Donahey was a Chicago Tribune columnist and creator of the Teenie Weenies comic strip.