Senator
Donnell was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1944. In that race, he defeated state Attorney General Roy McKittrick by 1,988 votes out of nearly 1.56 million cast . McKittrick had unseated incumbent U.S. Senator Bennett Champ Clark in the Democratic primary. He served from 1945 to 1951. He lost to former U.S. Representative Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. by 53.6%-to-46.4% in the United States Senate elections, 1950.
He died in 1980 at the age of 95 in St. Louis.
He is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
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