Edward Francis McDonald (September 21, 1844 – November 5, 1892) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1891 to 1892.

McDonald was born in Ireland on September 21, 1844, and immigrated to the United States when six years of age with his parents, who settled in Newark, New Jersey and attended the Newark Public Schools.

During the Civil War, he enlisted in Company I, Seventh Regiment, New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, in 1861, and was honorably discharged in 1862.

He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1874, and director at large of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hudson County in 1877, and was reelected in 1879 and served four years.

[1] He was interred in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in East Orange, New Jersey.