He attended the University of North Dakota for two years, before entering the United States Air Force in 1951.
The only regularly published editorial cartoonist in the Dakotas, McDonald's cartoons explored a myriad of local, state, national and international issues.
He won three George Washington Honor Medals from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge.
[1] McDonald also spent time in Denver, Colorado, and Jamestown, North Dakota, before retiring in 2001.
McDonald later lived in Newburgh, Indiana where he drew the political cartoons for the Evansville Courier & Press.