Links Club
{{Short description|Private club in New York City}}
The Links is a private club in New York City. It is located at 36 East 62nd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.{{cite news|last1=Frank|first1=Robert|title=That Bright, Dying Star, the American WASP|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704414504575244622954114574|accessdate=January 21, 2016|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 15, 2010}}{{cite news|last1=Gray|first1=Christopher|title=A Notable Block With a Hole in Its Heart|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/realestate/16scap.html?_r=0|accessdate=January 21, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=July 16, 2006}} Charles B. Macdonald, a golf champion and founder of the United States Golf Association, started the Links in 1917 as a place where powerful members of the golf world could keep the true spirit of the game alive.
History
The club was established in 1916–1917 by Charles B. Macdonald, in a building designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style by Cross & Cross.{{cite book|last1=Dolkart|first1=Andrew|title=Guide to New York City Landmarks|date=1998|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=New York|isbn=9780471182894|oclc=36922554|page=155|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AwYcSFtdE_AC&dq=%22links+club%22+%22upper+east+side%22&pg=PA155|accessdate=January 21, 2016}} In the 1960s, it was "a preferred social gathering spot for America's most powerful chief executives."{{cite book|last1=Waterhouse|first1=Benjamin C.|title=Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA|date=2013|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, New Jersey|isbn=9780691149165|oclc=867926037|pages=76–77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYuGAAAAQBAJ&dq=%22links+club%22+new+york&pg=PA76|accessdate=January 21, 2016}} By 2010, it was still a "preserve of the old banking elite", but not all members were WASPs.
Notable members in 1955
A sampling of members in 1955 is listed below:
=Government and diplomacy=
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States
- Winthrop W. Aldrich, ambassador to Great Britain
- Arthur A. Ballantine, Undersecretary of the Treasury and lawyer
- Prescott S. Bush, U.S. Senator and father of President Bush (41)
- Charles E. Daniel, U.S. Senator from South Carolina
- Thomas E. Dewey, governor of New York
- C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. ambassador to France, Future Secretary of the Treasury
- Joseph E. Davies, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union
- Thomas S. Gates, Jr., future U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Walter S. Gifford, former chairman of A T & T, former Ambassador to the U.K.
- Stanton Griffis, U.S. ambassador to Poland, Egypt, Spain and Argentina
- Amory Houghton, CEO, Corning Glass Works, future U.S. Congressman
- George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
- Herbert C. Hoover Jr. son of the 31st President, Undersecretary of State and a member of the President's cabinet
- John A. McCone, future director of the C.I.A.
- Jean Monnet, diplomat and founding father of the European Union
- Winthrop Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller and Governor of Arkansas
- Sir William Wiseman, British intelligence agent and banker
- Cyrus R. Vance, future U.S. Secretary of State
- John Hay Whitney, future U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain
=Military=
- Oscar C. Badger, a four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy
- Ralph A. Bard, undersecretary of the U.S. Navy
- Dunbar W. Bostwick, lt. colonel, U.S. Army, helped organize Normandy invasion
- Lucius D. Clay, U.S. general, Eisenhower deputy and "father" of the Berlin airlift
- Robert A. Lovett, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
- Paul Nitze, future Secretary of the Navy
- Elwood R. Quesada, lieutenant general, U.S.A.F.
- Stanley R. Resor, future U.S. Secretary of the Army
- Kenneth Royall, Army brigadier general, last person to serve as Secretary of War
- James Hopkins Smith Jr., U.S. Secretary of the Navy
- William Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's chief of staff in WWII, four-star general, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and former C.I.A director
- Harold E. Talbott, Secretary of the Air Force
- James H. Doolittle, U.S. general and famed aviator
=Industry=
- Sewell L. Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward
- Stephen D. Bechtel of the engineering and construction company
- Sosthenes Behn, founder of ITT Corporation
- Roger M. Blough, president of U.S. Steel Corporation
- Harold Boeschenstein, chairman of Owens-Corning
- Richard L. Bowditch, chairman U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- H.S.M. Burns, British president of Shell Oil Company
- Louis S. Cates, Chairman of Phelps Dodge
- Owen R. Cheatham, chairman of Georgia Pacific Corporation
- Colby M. Chester, chairman of General Foods Corporation
- Hugh J. Chisholm, president of International Paper
- George H. Coppers, chairman of Nabisco
- Cleo F. Craig, president of AT&T
- Walter F. Dillingham, “the Baron of Hawaiian Industry”
- Richard R. Depree, president of Procter & Gamble
- Benjamin F. Fairless, CEO of U.S. Steel
- Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Company
- J. Peter Grace Jr., Grace Chemical CEO
- Augustus C. Long, CEO of Texaco
- Henry R. Luce, publisher of Time Magazine
- Joseph H. McConnell, former president of NBC
- George W. Merck, president of Merck pharmaceuticals
- Roger Milliken, CEO of Milliken textiles
- Morehead Patterson, chairman of AMF
- G. Willing Pepper, president of the Scott Paper Company
- Gwilym A. Price, president of Westinghouse
- Edgar Monsanto Queeny, chairman of Monsanto Corporation
- Donald J. Russell, future CEO of Southern Pacific Railroad
- Sidney A. Swensrud, chairman Gulf Oil
- Walter C. Teagle, retired chairman of Standard Oil
- Thomas J. Watson Jr., president of IBM
- Charles E. Wilson, former president of General Electric
=Finance=
- Norborne Berkeley, president of Chemical Bank
- Edward Eagle Brown, chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago
- Paul C. Cabot, founded State Street Corporation and started the first mutual fund
- Asa V. Call, president of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
- Jean Cattier, Partner at White Weld & Co, and Chairman of the European American Bank https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/bohemian_grove_appendix.pdf
- George Champion, chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
- J. Luther Cleveland, chairman of the Guaranty Trust Company
- S. Sloan Colt, president of the Bankers Trust Company
- Isaac B. Grainger, president of Chemical Bank and future president U.S.G.A.
- Benjamin H. Griswold III, chairman of Alex, Brown
- E. Roland Harriman, co-founder of Brown Brothers Harriman
- Devereux C. Josephs, chairman of the Board New York Life Insurance
- John J. McCloy, future chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank, President World Bank
- Henry S. Morgan, grandson of J.P. Morgan and co-founder of Morgan Stanley
- Ralph Owen, chairman of American Express
- Elmore C. Patterson, future CEO of J.P. Morgan
- Ralph T. Reed, future CEO of American Express
- David Rockefeller, future chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank
- J. Stillman Rockefeller, president National City Bank
- Howard C. Sheperd, chairman of National City Bank
- Harold Stanley, co-founder of Morgan Stanley
- Dean Witter, founder of Dean Witter investment firm
=Aircraft and aviation=
- William E. Boeing, founder of the Boeing Airplane Company
- F. Trubee Davison, WWI Naval Aviator
- Robert E. Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft
- Frederick B. Rentschler, chairman of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
- Edward V. Rickenbacker, World War I ace pilot
- Leon A. Swirbul, founder of Grumman Aircraft
=Born rich=
- Marshall Field, heir to the department store fortune
- James H. McGraw Jr. heir to the book publishing company
- Paul Mellon, heir to the Mellon banking fortune and philanthropist
- Howard Phipps, heir to the Carnegie Steel partner Henry Phipps Jr.
- Joseph N. Pew, heir to Sun Oil fortune, co-founder of the Pew Charitable Trusts
- J. Watson Webb, film maker and heir to the Vanderbilt fortune
=Golf and other pursuits=
- Morton G. Bogue, former president of the U.S.G.A.
- C. Suydam Cutting, explorer
- Donald K. David, dean of the Harvard BusinessSchool
- Arthur H. Dean, chairman of the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell
- Childs Frick, paleontologist and son of Steel magnate Henry Clay Frick
- Totton P. Heffelfinger, president of the U.S.G.A.
- Eugene V. Homans. Bobby Jones defeated Homans at Merion to win the grand slam in 1930
- Roger D. Lapham, Mayor of San Francisco and co-founder of Cypress Point Club
- Robert Montgomery, actor
- Alfred Easton Poor, architect
- Roland L. Redmond, president Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Archie M. Reid, secretary of the U.S.G.A.
- Clifford Roberts, co-founder of Augusta National Golf Club
=Other=
=1955 members featured on the cover of Time Magazine =
- Charles Wilson
- Colby Chester
- Cyrus Vance
- David Rockefeller
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Douglas Dillon
- Eddie Rickenbacker
- George Merck
- Gwilym Price
- Henry Ford II
- Herbert Hoover Jr.
- James Doolittle
- John McCloy
- Joseph Davies
- Joseph Pew
- Lucius Clay
- Roger Blough
- Roger Lapham
- Stillman Rockefeller
- Thomas Dewey
- Thomas Watson
- Trubee Davison
- Walter Teagle
- Winthrop Rockefeller
- List of traditional gentlemen's clubs in the United States
- [http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-neo-georgian-links-club-no-36-38-e.html Article] on the clubhouse and its architecture.
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Category:Gentlemen's clubs in New York City
Category:1917 establishments in New York (state)