F. Joseph "Jiggs" Donohue (January 15, 1900 – April 4, 1978) was a Washington, DC politician who served as the 19th President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from 1952 to 1953.

He was also a lawyer who tried cases before the Supreme Court, a friend of every president from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter and soldier who served in two wars.

[3] In the 1940s he was special assistant to the U.S. attorney general and moved to San Francisco where he successfully prosecuted labor leader Harry Bridges, whose deportation was sought by the government.

[1] He was a fervent anti-communist who defended Helen Gahagan Douglas, the Democratic opponent of Richard Nixon in the 1950 California Senate Election, when she was accused of being a communist.

He also sought more money for the District, accusing the Federal Government of "studied neglect," which he wanted to spend on long-range investments and improvements within the black schools (which were still segregated at the time - something he asked Congress to end).

[7] In later life, Donohue returned to law practice representing banks before the federal reserve and argued cases before the Supreme Court and was California Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke's lawyer during his perjury trial.

On April 4, 1978, he died of a heart attack at George Washington University Hospital and was later buried in Arlington National Cemetery.