M.H. de Young, San Francisco Chronicle propietor, described its formation in a 1915 interview:
The Bohemian Club was organized in the Chronicle office by Tommy Newcombe, Sutherland, Dan O'Connell, Harry Dam and others who were members of the staff. The boys wanted a place where they could get together after work, and they took a room on Sacramento street below Kearny. That was the start of the Bohemian Club, and it was not an unmixed blessing for the Chronicle because the boys would go there sometimes when they should have reported at the office. Very often when Dan O'Connell sat down to a good dinner there he would forget that he had a pocketful of notes for an important story.
Poet, and club member George Sterling described it thus:
Any good mixer of convivial habits considers he has a right to be called a Bohemian. But that is not a valid claim. There are two elements, at least, that are essential to Bohemianism. The first is devotion or addiction to one or more of the Seven Arts; the other is poverty. Other factors suggest themselves: for instance, I like to think of my Bohemians as young, as radical in their outlook on art and life; as unconventional, and, though this is debatable, as dwellers in a city large enough to have the somewhat cruel atmosphere of all great cities
The Bohemian Club was founded April 1872 by journalists who would promote a fraternity among men who enjoyed the arts. Prior to that in New York City and other major American cities in the late 1850s, groups of young journalists flourished in creating so-called "bohemian" lifestyles till the advent of the American Civil War turned them into war correspondents. With the founding of the Bohemian Club, journalists were the regular members, musicians and artists honorary ones.
The group relaxed its rules for membership to permit some people without much in the way of artistic talent, but were rather patrons of the arts with rather large bank accounts. Soon, the "bohemian" originals were in the minority and the wealthy and powerful dominated the club. Members were established, successful, respectable family men, who transformed the club into a new form of bohemianism, essentially a secret resort for closet homosexuals to be more free with themselves. And so the club became an essentially homosexual fraternity.
Oscar Wilde, on visiting in 1882, apparently said, "I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians (homosexuals) in my life."
Many past member lists are public information, but current member lists are not. Some business and political leaders have received honorary member status, such as William Randolph Hearst and Richard Nixon.
Membes have included US presidents (mostly before they took the top spot), cabinet officials, and CEOs, including those of major banks.
Military contractors, oil companies, banks, the Federal Reserve, and media companies include top officials that are club members or guests. Still, artists and art lovers are among the most arduous members. Bohemian Club bylaws require 25 % to be accomplished artists of all types (composers, musicians, singers, actors, painters, filmmakers, etc). Artistic members are admitted after passing a "stringent" audition demonstrating their talent. One wonders what form(s) of homosexual activity these "auditions" include.
As we have mentioned before in this blog, the rituals performed at the 2-week annual meeting in July are satanic in nature and include an abundance of homosexual activity as part of the festivities. Inclusion in the list of membership does not designate homosexuality but it is a safe bet most of the members have some proclivity toward such activity. For more information, see previous Bohemian Grove blog.
Nicholas A. Acker
Frank K. Ainsworth
Robert I. Aitken
John Fellows Akers
Eddie Albert
Lamar Alexander
Wallace M. Alexander
Charles E. Allen
Pelham W. Ames
Martin Anderson
Earle C. Anthony
Peter R. Arnott
Samual Armacost
Norman Ralph Augustine
Thomas G. Ayers
Samuel W. Backus
James Baker
Mason Ball
Robert D. Ballard
Sydney Ballou
Albert L. Bancroft
John Barneson
John M Barry
George Aiken Batchelder
Al W. Baxter
Walter Kirker Beatty
Riley P. Bechtel
Stephen Bechtel, Jr.
Stephen David Bechtel, Sr.
Francis E. Beck
D. P. Belknap
Karl Bendetsen
Fulton G. Berry
Cesar Bertheau
Benjamin Biaggini
Clarence E. Bickford
Ambrose Bierce
H. R. Bloomer
Charles R. Blyth
John Henry Boalt
George C. Boardman
Louis Boccardi
Leon Bocqueraz
Clint Bolick
James G. Boswell II
Henry M. Bosworth
Richard Boucher
Edward Bosqui
William B. Bourn II
Elizabeth Crocker Bowers
Allan St. John Bowie
James F. Bowman
Margaret B. Bowman
Harry J. Brady
Nicholas F. Brady
Frederic H. Brandi
Edward Lacy Brayton
Richard L. Breen
Domenica Brescia
Nathaniel J. Brittan
David S. Broder
George T. Bromley
Samuel Marsden Brookes
David Brooks
Harold Brown
Pat Brown
Emile Bruguière
Frank H. Buck
Aurelius E. Buckingham
Christopher Buckley
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Jimmy Buffett
Charles Bundschu
Clair Burgener
Frank Gelett Burgess
Hugh M. Burke
Daniel M. Burns
George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush
Norton Bush
Nicholas Murray Butler
Richard Butler
Witter Bynner
Giuseppe Cadenasso
Guido E. Caglieri
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Howard Callaway
George T. Cameron
Chauncey L. Canfield
Robert Capelle
Harris C. Capwell
Emil Carlsen
Charles Joseph Carlson
Harry P. Carlton
Jimmy Carter
Albert Vincent Casey
Alexander T. Case
William J. Casey
Harry Chandler
Norman Chandler
Joseph A. Chanslor
Horace B. Chase
Ernest D. Chipman
George Chismore
Andrew Christeson
William P. Clark, Jr.
Harry Corson Clarke
Alden W. Clausen
John Willard Clawson
Lucius D. Clay
Philip T. Clay
Sydney A. Cloman
Charles Coburn
Tony Coelho
Colbert Coldwell
Alex K. Coney
Russell H. Cool
Ina Coolbrith
Joseph Coors
Harry Thomas Cory
Joseph B. Coryell
Gordon Coutts
John Cheever Cowden
Jennings S. Cox
Ray F. Coyle
George Creel
John C. Cremony
Charles H. Crocker
Charles Templeton Crocker
William H. Crocker
Joseph B. Crockett
Walter Cronkite
Melvin Earl Cummings
Wiliam Curlett
Charles S. Cushing
Sidney B. Cushing
Andrew McFarland Davis
Richmond P. Davis
Willis E. Davis
Paul W. de Fremery
George Bowen De Long
Eugene de Joly De Sabla, Jr.
Paolo De Vecchi
Walter E. Dean
Henry C. Dibble
Benjamin Dibblee
Charles John Dickman
Marshall Dill, Sr.
Edwin R. Dimond
Maynard Dixon
David F. Dodge
George D. Dornin
Kingman Douglass
T. W. Morgan Draper
William Henry Draper III
Frank G. Drum
Allen Drury
John Eleuthère du Pont
Edward J. Duffey
William B. Dunning
Glenn S. Dumke
Guy C. Earl
Clint Eastwood
Robert M. Eberle
Henry "Harry" Edwards
J. Paulding Edwards
Zoeth S. Eldredge
Felton B. Elkins
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George H. Evans
Richard Bunger Evans
Wallace W. Everett, Sr.
James J. Fagan
Charles W. Fay
Paul B. Fay
Philip R. Faymonville
Charles N. Felton
Watson D. Fennimore
Chester Bailey Fernald
Reginald Goodwin Fernald
Manuel Y. Ferrer
Edwin Feulner
Charles K. Charles K. Field
George Russell Field
Walter G. Filer
Bush Finnell
Leonard Firestone
Bud Fisher
Donald Fisher
Robert N. Fitch
Robert Howe Fletcher
James L. Flood
Ernest R. Folger
Frank M. Folsom
Harry Stuart Fonda
Lucius Harwood Foote
Gerald Ford
Henry Ford
Joseph C. Ford
Tirey L. Ford
Sands W. Forman
Arthur W. Foster
Anthony M. Frank
J. Eugene Freeman
Paul Frenzeny
Emanuel Fritz
Jacob L. Fuller
William Parmer Fuller, Jr.
Evan G. Galbraith
Porter Garnett
Albert Geberding
Larry Gelbart
Arnold Genthe
Henry George
David Gergen
Louis Glass
Mario Giannini
Arthur Hill Gilbert
Daniel Coit Gilman
Barry Goldwater
Geroge E. Goodfellow
Charles A. Gove
P. George Gow
Donald de V. Graham
Joseph D. Grant
Enrique Grau
Harry Gray
Ellison C. Grayson, Jr.
Clarence R. Greathouse
Clay M. Greene
Percy Grey
Willard M. Griffin
Joseph R. Grismer
Archibald Clavering Gunter
James F. Gurley
Isidore Gutte
Henry Kimball Hadley
Prentis Cobb Hale
Reuben B. Hale
Andrew B. Hammond
Theodore Michael Hampe
Lewis E. Hanchett
Allan Hancock
Arpad Haraszthy
Leigh Harline
William Greer Harrison
Jerome A. Hart
Bret Harte
Fred L. Hartley
J. Downey Harvey
Charles D. Haven
Alexander G. Hawes
S. I. Hayakawa
Thomas B. Hayward
William Randolph Hearst
Marcus H. Hecht
Francis J. Heney
Rudolph Herold, Jr.
Lester Herrick
William F. Herrin
William Reddington Hewlett
Henry Heyman
Barton Hill
Charles Barton Hill
Horace L. Hill
Thomas Hill
Ransome Gillett Holdridge
Charles D. Hollister
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Hood
C. Osgood Hooker
Herbert Hoover
Richard M. Hotaling
Preston Hotchkis
William D. Houser
Jack R. Howard
Josiah Rowland Howell
Charles Franklin Humphrey
LeRoy P. Hunt
Henry Edwards Huntington
Rothwell Hyde
James Irvine
Henry Irving
Benoni Irwin
Joseph Irwin
Wallace Irwin
William Henry Irwin
Paul R. Isenberg
George I. Ives
Livingstone Jenks
Rufus P. Jennings
Charles Bartlett Johnson
Tom Johnson
David Charles Jones
Philip Mills Jones
Thomas Victor Jones
David Starr Jordan
Christian Jorgensen
Virgil W. Jorgenson
Charles Josselyn
Amedee Joullin
Charles Chapel Judson
Edgar F. Kaiser, Sr.
Henry J. Kaiser
David Kawānanakoa
Charles Keeler
William Keith
Charles Kendrick
Robert D. Kennedy
Frank G. Kenny
Clark Kerr
John C. Kerr
Henry Kissinger
John Kluge
Andrew Knight
Joe Knowland
Joseph R. Knowland
Robert Krebs
Victor H. Krulak
Lucien Labaudt
James B. Lankershim
Roger Lapham
Barbour Lathrop
Lorenzo Latimer
William P. Lawlor
Ernest O. Lawrence
Stephen Leach
Dana Gibson Leavitt
John Lehman
William M. Lent
George Lette
Arthur Letts
Jacob B. Levison
Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.
Charles A. Lewis, Jr.
David S. Lewis, Jr.
Art Linkletter
Philip N. Lilienthal
Frederick L. Lipman
Sara Jane Lippincott
Louis Lisser
Edmund Wattis Littlefield
Jacques Littlefield
Reuben H. Lloyd
James B. Lockhart III
Maurice Logan
Jack London
Louis Lundborg
James K. Lynch
M. Hall McAllister
Atholl McBean
Jesse McCargar
John A. McCone
Alexander S. McDill
James M. McDonald
Mark L. McDonald
Duncan McDuffie
Dean McHenry
N. Loyall "Blackie" McLaren
Dennis McNeil
Pietro Mascagni
Frank L. Mathieu
Arthur Frank Mathews
Nino Marcelli
Ulderico Marcelli
Henry Marshall
J. Howard Marshall
Robert Cecil Martin
Xavier Martínez
Bernard Maybeck
Clarence W. W. Mayhew
Edwin Meese
Stewart Menzies
J. Henry Meyer
Joaquin Miller
Robert Mondavi
Ralph Moody
Arthur W. Moore
Gordon Moore
Jo Mora
Henry S. Morgan
Carlton E. Morse
Andrew J. Moulder
Gabriel Moulin
Thornwell Mullally
Ovide Musin
Benjamin F. Napthaly
Paul Neumann
Thomas Newcomb
John Francis Neylan
Chester W. Nimitz
George S. Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Charles Gilman Norris
Frank Norris
Daniel O'Connell
Sean O'Keefe
David J. O'Reilly
Roland Oliver
William Letts Oliver
Samuel Osbourne
David Packard
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Haig Patigian
William A. Patterson, Sr.
Edwin W. Pauley
Allen E. Paulson
Theodore F. Payne
Warren R. Payne
Edgar D. Peixotto
Rudolph A. Peterson
Timothy L. Pflueger
James D. Phelan
Herman Phleger
Gottardo Piazzoni
Irving Pichel
Horace Garvin Platt
Willis Polk
Colin Powell
Richard E. Queen
Ronald Reagan
Joseph D. Redding
Granville Redman
Carl E. Reichardt
William Henry Rhodes
William C. Richardson
Eddie Rickenbacker
William Ritschel
Julian Rix
George R. Roberts
Peter Robertson
David Rockefeller, Jr.
David Rockefeller, Sr.
R. C. Rogers
Albert F. Roller
James Rolph, Jr.
Theodore Roosevelt
J. Thomas Rosch
William M. Roth
William Rulofson
Donald Rumsfeld
Wallace Arthur Sabin
Tommaso Salvini
J. H. Sayre
Herman George Scheffauer
Caspar Schenck
Charles R. Schwab
William Schwarzer
Charles Scripps
Glenn T. Seaborg
Frederick Seitz
Eugene Selvage
William T. Sesnon
George Shearing
Frederick Sherman
J. Wilson Shiels
George P. Shultz
Robert Sibley
John L. Simpson
H. E. Smith
William French Smith
Tony Snow
Adolph B. Spreckels
Claus Spreckels
Robert Gordon Sproul
Ralph Stackpole
Kenneth Starr
Kevin Starr
Paul Steindorff
H. Morse Stephens
George Sterling
Wallace Sterling
Roger L. Stevens
Guyford Stever
Humphrey John Stewart
Charles Warren Stoddard
Michael P. W. Stone
C. H. Stoutenborough
Vanderlynn Stow
Benjamin R. Swan
Jimmy Swinnerton
James W. Symington
Jules Tavernier
William Howard Taft
Alec Templeton
H. F. Teschemacher
Newton J. Tharp
John Charles Thomas
Lowell Thomas, Jr.
Lowell Thomas, Sr.
Lawrence Tibbett
Douglas Tilden
Joseph Tilden
Marvin Traub
Donald Tressider
Fred L. Turner
Mark Twain
F. L. Unger
Frank van Sloun
Harry Volk
Michael von Clemm
Uda Waldrop
William T. Wallace
Thomas Watson, Jr.
Albert Coady Wedemeyer
William V. Wells
F. Marion Wells
Raphael Weill
Caspar Weinberger
Carl Irving Wheat
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Charles Stetson Wheeler
Frederick Whymper
Ray Lyman Wilbur
John H. Williams
Virgil Williams
J. C. Williamson
Carey Wilson
Russell J. Wilson
William Winter
Jean C. Witter
Dale Wood
James Woods
Theodore Wores
Herman Wouk
Charles G. Yale
Rodney A. Yoell
Waldemar Young
Earl Zindars
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