Daniel Jackson Donahue ’44

Daniel Jackson Donahue ’44 passed away on March 20, 2015. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. After graduating Dartmouth he served with the U.S. Navy during WW II and earned a law degree. Dan was a venture capitalist whose interests included owning the Atlanta Braves baseball team, where he served as president until the subsequent sale of the franchise to Ted Turner. His wife, Marilyn, survives him, as do three children.


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Alumni Books
New titles from Dartmouth writers (March/April 2025)
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New Bishop
Diocese elevates its first female leader, Julia E. Whitworth ’93.
Reconstruction Radical

Amid the turmoil of Post-Civil War America, Amos Akerman, Class of 1842, went toe to toe with the Ku Klux Klan.

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Kirsten Gillibrand ’88
A U.S. senator on 18 years in Washington, D.C.

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