The Alfalfa Club, founded in 1913, is an exclusive social organization, based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The Club's only function is the holding of an annual banquet in honor of the birthday of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Its members are composed mostly of American politicians and influential members of the business community, and have included several Presidents of the United States.
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Members (incomplete)
Presidents
- George W. Bush[1]
- George H. W. Bush[1]
- Ronald Reagan
- Gerald Ford
- Richard Nixon
- John F. Kennedy
- Harry S. Truman
- Joseph Biden Jr.
Vice Presidents
Secretaries of State
- Mike Pompeo
- John Kerry[3]
- Condoleezza Rice
- Colin Powell[2]
- Madeleine Albright[2]
- James Baker III
- George P. Shultz
- Henry Kissinger
- John Foster Dulles
- Dean Acheson
Secretaries of Defense
- Jim Mattis (current vice president of the club)
- Robert Gates
- Donald Rumsfeld
- Neil McElroy
- James R. Schlesinger
Other Cabinet Officials
Members of Congress
- Lamar Alexander[2]
- Kelly Ayotte[2]
- Robert F. Bennett
- Cory Booker
- David Boren
- Prescott Bush[2][1]
- Shelley Moore Capito[3]
- Christopher A. Coons[3]
- Tom Daschle
- Debbie Dingell
- Elizabeth Dole[2]
- David Dreier
- Joni Ernst
- Dianne Feinstein[2]
- Newt Gingrich
- Barry Goldwater
- Barry Goldwater, Jr.
- Orrin Hatch
- Tim Kaine[2]
- Jack Kemp
- William Knowland
- Joe Lieberman
- John McCain
- Kevin McCarthy
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Ben Nelson
- Rob Portman
- Chuck Robb
- Jay Rockefeller
- Mitt Romney[3]
- Chuck Schumer
- Mark Warner[2]
Governors
Mayors
Supreme Court Justices
- Stephen Breyer[2]
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- William Rehnquist[2]
- Sandra Day O'Connor[2]
- Earl Warren
- John Roberts[3][2]
- Anthony Kennedy
Judges
Ambassadors
Military Officials
- Neil Armstrong
- James Holloway III
- David Charles Jones
- Curtis LeMay
- David Petraeus
- William Westmoreland
FBI Directors
Federal Reserve Chairmen
Business people
- Brendan Bechtel,[4] Bechtel CEO
- Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder
- Warren Buffett,[2] Berkshire Hathaway CEO
- Steve Case,[2] AOL founder
- Timothy C. Collins, finance
- Michael Dell, Dell founder
- Raul Fernandez, Proxicom founder
- Steve Forbes, Forbes editor-in-chief
- Bill Gates, Microsoft founder
- Katharine Graham,[2] Washington Post publisher
- William Grayson,[2] finance
- Marillyn Hewson,[5] Lockheed CEO
- Walter Isaacson,[2] Aspen Institute CEO, author
- Jay L. Johnson, former Navy CNO and General Dynamics CEO
- William B. Harrison Jr., JPMorgan Chase CEO
- Bill Marriott,[2] Marriott International CEO
- Bill McSweeny,[2] Occidental Petroleum President
- Robert Mondavi, winemaker
- Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems founder
- Russ Ramsey, founder
- Catherine Reynolds,[2] student loans, philanthropist
- David Rubenstein,[2] Carlyle Group co-founder, financier
- Donald Thompson, McDonald's CEO
- C. Bowdoin Train,[2] finance
- Jamie Dimon, CEO JPMorgan Chase and Co.
- Chung Mong-joon, former CEO and the largest shareholder of HD Hyundai
Other
- James A. Baker IV,[2] lawyer
- Clark Clifford,[2] lawyer
- Valerie Jarrett[2]
- Vernon Jordan Jr., lawyer
- Arnold Palmer, golfer
- Landon Parvin,[2] writer
- Richard Pearson[2]
References
- ^ a b c d Bush, George W. (2014). 41: A Portrait of My Father. London: Ebury Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 9780553447781. OCLC 883645289.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Roxanne Roberts (January 24, 2014). "The Alfalfa Club: still a place for the powerful to see and be seen". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on January 26, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Andrews-Dyer, Helena (January 27, 2019). "John Kerry and Mitt Romney hugging, and Mitch McConnell in a hospital gown? It must be the Alfalfa Club dinner". The Washington Post.
- ^ Andrews-Dyer, Helena (January 29, 2017). "A political truce is called at the 104th annual Alfalfa Club dinner". The Washington Post.
- ^ Emily Heil (January 29, 2015). "What's the deal with the Alfalfa Club?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 25, 2015.
This page was last edited on 26 November 2023, at 11:34