Thomas J. Donohue Sr. (born 1938) is the President and CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce located in Washington, D.C.[1] The Chamber of Commerce supports pro-business causes, and it is the largest and oldest trade association in the United States.[2] He has been the Chamber's president since 1997.
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Donohue studied at St. John's University, before pursuing an MA in Business at Adelphi University (1965). He then worked as an administrator at Fairfield University (1967–69) and worked as a trustee at Marymount University.
From 1969 to 1976 he was the US Official Deputy Assistant Postmaster General. From 1984 to 1997 Donohue was President and CEO of the American Trucking Association.
He has also served as the President of the Center for International Private Enterprise. He is an Emeritus Hudson Institute Trustee, a member of the board of Qwest (2001-?), of Sunrise Assisted Living Corporation (1995-), of Union Pacific (1998-), and of XM (1999-).
The New York Times writes that “through Mr. Donohue’s efforts, the Chamber has become the most visible and effective business lobby in the country.” The Washington Post says “Nobody has mastered the new Washington game better than Tom Donohue.” [3]
Among his achievements, Donohue established the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, which has won significant cases in the courts, at the state and federal levels, and in elections for state attorneys general and Supreme Court judges.
Donohue is president of the National Chamber Foundation as well as the Center for International Private Enterprise, a program of the National Endowment for Democracy dedicated to the development of market-oriented institutions around the world.
Donohue has a wife named Liz and three sons.