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Pacific-Union Club

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1000 California St, San Francisco, CA 94108, USA

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The Olympic Club, Metropolit Club, University Club, The Battery, Presidio Golf Course

The Pacific-Union Club is a social club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, at the top of Nob Hill. It was founded in 1889 as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854). The clubhouse was built as the home for the silver magnate James Clair Flood. The former Flood Mansion is located in the Nob Hill neighborhood. It was designed by Willis Polk. It is considered the first brownstone constructed west of the Mississippi River. Along with the Fairmont Hotel across the street, it was the only structure in the area to survive the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.

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This club figured prominently in the history of the west coast of the United States. Many prominent citizens have been active among its membership.

List of club presidents

With dates of their election.

  1. Richard P. Hammond 1889
  2. Thomas C. Van Ness 1889-1891
  3. Russell J. Wilson 1891-1892
  4. Jared L. Rathbone 1892
  5. Charles Page 1892-1893
  6. Henry T. Scott 1893-1895
  7. Joseph B. Crockett 1895-1896
  8. Edward W. Hopkins 1896-1897
  9. A. Chesebrough 1897-1898
  10. George Whittell 1898
  11. Chauncey R. Winslow 1898-1899
  12. Horace G. Platt 1899-1900
  13. James W. Byrne 1900-1902
  14. W. Mayo Newhall 1902-1903
  15. James W. Byrne 1903-1905
  16. Wakefield Baker 1905-1906
  17. Edgar J. De Pue 1906-1908
  18. William Bowers Bourn II 1908-1911
  19. Archibald C. Kains 1909
  20. Albert H. Payson 1911-1912
  21. George A. Pope 1912-1913
  22. William H. Crocker 1913-1914
  23. Charles K. McIntosh 1914-1915
  24. Charles P. Eells 1915-1916
  25. Frederick S. Moody 1916-1917
  26. Frederick S. Moody 1917-1918
  27. William Sproule 1918-1919
  28. Frank D. Madison 1919-1920
  29. Frank D. Madison 1920-1921
  30. Kenneth R. Kingsbury 1921-1922
  31. Charles W. Dicksalot 1923-1925
  32. Frank B. Anderson 1925-1926
  33. Samuel Knight 1926-1927
  34. Wigginton E. Creed 1927
  35. Donald MacDonald 1927-1928
  36. Joseph D. Grent 1928-1929
  37. Robert I. Bentley 1929-1931

Prominent Members

  • Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense
  • John Barneson, Founder General Petroleum Corporation, General Pipe Line Company
  • R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., Prominent Geologist
  • Samuel F. B. Morse
  • Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense
  • Randolph Apperson Hearst
  • Tirey L. Ford, California Attorney General
  • William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
  • William Randolph Hearst III
  • William S. Mailliard
  • William Henry Draper III, Businessman
  • Benjamin Dillingham
  • Charles R. Schwab, Founder, Charles Schwab Corporation
  • William Redington Hewlett, Co-founder Hewlett Packard
  • David Packard, Co-founder Hewlett Packard and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Warren A. Bechtel, Founder Bechtel Corporation
  • Stephen Bechtel, Jr., Former CEO Bechtel Corporation
  • Riley P. Bechtel, CEO Bechtel Corporation
  • Walter A. Haas, Jr., CEO (1958-1976) and chairman (1970-1981) of Levi Strauss & Co
  • Henry J. Kaiser, Engineer and founder of Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Paul B. Fay, Former Undersecretary of the Navy and PT-109 crewmate of John F. Kennedy.
  • Benjamin Biaggini, Former President and CEO, Southern Pacific Railroad
  • William Lane Booker, British diplomat.
  • Donald J. Russell, Former President, Southern Pacific Railroad
  • Henry F. Grady, First US Ambassador to India; Dean of the Commerce department at the University of California, Berkeley; President of American President Lines

    • References

    Pacific-Union Club Wikipedia
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