Early Life
Donnell was born in Quitman, Missouri.
Donnell graduated from Maryville High School (Missouri) in 1900 and where his father was once mayor ironically living in the same home as Albert Morehouse who had also been governor.
At the University of Missouri he was a member of the Kappa Sigma and Phi Delta Phi fraternities and was elected to member in Phi Beta Kappa, Theta Kappa Nu and QEBH societies. He was valedictorian of the 1904 class and received a law degree in 1907.
In 1907 he moved to St. Louis, Missouri. In October 1911 he and future Senator Selden P. Spencer formed the law firm of Spencer & Donnell. In 1917 he was president of the Association of Young Republicans of Missouri; in 1918-1920 as a member of the executive committee of the Republican State Committee of Missouri; and in 1919 as president of the 28th Ward Republican Club of St. Louis.
He was the city attorney of Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb southwest of St. Louis City.
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