List of Alfalfa Club members
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.
Members (incomplete)
Presidents
Vice Presidents
Secretaries of State
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]
Mayors
Supreme Court Justices
Judges
Ambassadors
- David M. Abshire
- Richard Helms
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
- Catherine Reynolds[2], student loans, philanthropist
- David Rubenstein[2], finance
- Donald Thompson, McDonald's CEO
- C. Bowdoin Train[2], finance
- Jamie Dimon, CEO JPMorgan Chase and Co.
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
- Bush, George W. (2014). 41: A Portrait of My Father. London: Ebury Publishing. p. 14. ISBN 9780553447781. OCLC 883645289.
- Roxanne Roberts (24 January 2014). "The Alfalfa Club: still a place for the powerful to see and be seen". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 26 January 2020.
- Helena Andrews-Dyer (27 January 2019). "John Kerry and Mitt Romney hugging, and Mitch McConnell in a hospital gown? It must be the Alfalfa Club dinner". The Washington Post.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/gdpr-consent/?destination=%2fnews%2freliable-source%2fwp%2f2017%2f01%2f29%2fa-political-truce-is-called-at-the-104th-annual-alfalfa-club-dinner%2f%3f
- Emily Heil (29 January 2015). "What's the deal with the Alfalfa Club?". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 25 August 2015.
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