Michael Francis Tighe (1858-1940) was an American steelworker and trade union leader.
He began working at the age of 10 in a nail factory in Wheeling, West Virginia where he made $2 a week.
He began his career as a steelworker at 14 and served an apprenticeship as a member of the Sons of Vulcan.
Tighe died at the age of 82 at the West Penn Hospital following a paralytic stroke which occurred while reading a newspaper on his porch at his home in Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood.
He picked out a gravesite in Greenwood Cemetery in Wheeling prior to his death.