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|title      =Chairman of the [[Boston School Committee]]
|term_start =1975
|term_end   =1976
|predecessor=[[John J. Kerrigan]]
|successor  =[[Kathleen Sullivan Alioto|Kathleen Sullivan]]
|term1 =1967
|predecessor1=[[Thomas Eisenstadt]]
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|title3      =President of the Boston School Committee
|term3   =1980
|predecessor3=[[David Finnegan]]
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'''John J. McDonough''' is an American politician who served as a member of the [[Boston School Committee]] from 1966 to 1968 and again from 1972 to 1982. He was the Chairman/President of the School Committee in 1967, 1975, 1976, and 1980.<ref>{{cite web|title=Boston School Committee Presidents|url=http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/files/School%20Committee%20Chairpersons%20and%20Presidents%201870-present.pdf|work=bostonpublicschools.org|accessdate=27 June 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325131425/http://www.bostonpublicschools.org/files/School%20Committee%20Chairpersons%20and%20Presidents%201870-present.pdf|archivedate=25 March 2012}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for [[List of mayors of Boston|Mayor of Boston]] in [[Boston mayoral election, 1967|1967]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Annual Report of the Election Department|year=1968|pages=46|publisher=Boston [Election Dept.]|url=https://archive.org/stream/annualreportofbo1967bost#page/46/mode/2up}}</ref>
McDonough was an opponent of [[Desegregation busing in the United States#Boston.2C Massachusetts|court-ordered busing]] and in 1974 he and two other School Committee members were held in [[contempt of court]] for not coming up with a second phase of the desegregation process.<ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Steven J. L.|title=Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo|year=1998|publisher=SUNY Press|location=Albany, New York|isbn= 9780791439197|pages=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hR0OD8RLmSoC&pg=PA77}}</ref>
In 1981, McDonough was acquitted on charges of taking a $5,000 [[Kickback (bribery)|kickback]] from a school bus company.<ref>{{cite news|title=Boston School Official Is Cleared in Kickback|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/13/us/boston-school-official-is-cleared-in-kickback.html|accessdate=27 June 2011|newspaper=Associated Press|date=October 12, 1981}}</ref>
He is the brother of former [[Boston City Council]]or and city clerk [[Patrick F. McDonough]].
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