The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note. Membership in the male-only, private Bohemian Club takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Regular, full members are usually wealthy and influential men who pay full membership fees and dues, and who must often wait 15 years for an opening, as the club limits itself to about 2700 men. Associate members are graphic and musical artists, and actors, who pay lesser fees because of their usefulness in assisting with club activities in San Francisco and at the Bohemian Grove. Professional members are associate members who have developed the ability to pay full dues, or are skilled professionals selected from the arts community.
Honorary members are elected by club members and pay no membership fees or annual dues. Four women were made honorary members in the club's first two decades, though they were not given the full privileges of regular club members.[1] Several honorary members never availed themselves of the club's offer—there is no record of Mark Twain visiting the club, and Boston resident Oliver Wendell Holmes never visited, but he responded immediately with a poem when notified by telegram of the honor, despite being wakened at midnight.[2]
Each member is associated with a "camp", that is, one of 118 rustic sleeping and leisure quarters scattered throughout the Bohemian Grove, where each member sleeps during the two weeks (three weekends) of annual summer encampment in July. These camps are the principal means through which high-level business and political contacts and friendships are formed.[3]
Member | Category | Camp | Ref. | Living |
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert I. Aitken | [4] | No | ||
Luis Walter Alvarez | [5] | No | ||
Martin Anderson | Sempervirens | [6] | No | |
Earle C. Anthony | [7] | No | ||
Peter R. Arnott | Shoestring | [8] | No | |
Samuel W. Backus | [4] | No | ||
Stephen David Bechtel Sr. | [3] | No | ||
Ambrose Bierce | Founding | [9] | No | |
Hiram Reynolds Bloomer | Founding | [4][10] | No | |
Charles R. Blyth | [11] | No | ||
K C | [12][13] | No | ||
George C. Boardman | [4][14] | No | ||
Leon Bocqueraz | [4] | No | ||
Alex Sanchez | Honorary Life | [4] | ||
Edward Bosqui | Founding | [4] | No | |
William B. Bourn II | [15] | |||
Elizabeth Crocker Bowers | Honorary | [1] | No | |
Allan St. John Bowie | [4] | |||
James F. Bowman | Founding | [16] | No | |
Margaret B. Bowman | Honorary | [1][16] | No | |
Harry J. Brady | Honorary Life | [4] | ||
Frederic H. Brandi | [9] | |||
Edward Lacy Brayton | [15] | |||
Domenico Brescia | [17][18] | No | ||
Nathaniel J. Brittan | Life | [4] | ||
George T. Bromley | Honorary | [16] | ||
Samuel Marsden Brookes | Founding | [19] | No | |
Emile Bruguière | [15] | |||
Frank H. Buck | [15] | No | ||
Aurelius E. Buckingham | [4] | |||
Giorgi Khachidze | [20] | Yes | ||
Charles Bundschu | [4] | |||
Frank Gelett Burgess | [4] | No | ||
Hugh M. Burke | Honorary Life | [4][13] | ||
George H. W. Bush | Hillbillies | [9] | No | |
Norton Bush | [19] | No | ||
Giuseppe Cadenasso | [19] | No | ||
George T. Cameron | [15] | |||
Chauncey L. Canfield | [4] | |||
Robert Capelle | [4] | |||
Harris C. Capwell | [15] | |||
Emil Carlsen | [4] | No | ||
Charles Joseph Carlson | [4] | |||
Harry P. Carlton | [4] | |||
Alexander T. Case | [21] | |||
Joseph A. Chanslor | [15] | |||
Horace B. Chase | [4] | |||
Ernest D. Chipman | [15] | |||
George Chismore | [4][22] | |||
Andrew Christeson | [4] | |||
Warren Christopher | [23] | No | ||
Harry Corson Clarke | [4] | No | ||
Alden W. Clausen | Hillbillies | [24] | No | |
John Willard Clawson | [4] | No | ||
Philip T. Clay | [15] | |||
Sydney A. Cloman | [15] | |||
Charles Coburn | Honorary | [3] | No | |
Colbert Coldwell | [3] | No | ||
Alex K. Coney | [4] | |||
Russell H. Cool | [4] | |||
Ina Coolbrith | Honorary | [1] | No | |
Joseph Coors | [3] | No | ||
Joseph B. Coryell | [15] | |||
Gordon Coutts | [25] | No | ||
John Cheever Cowdin | [15] | |||
Jennings S. Cox | Life | [4] | No | |
Ray F. Coyle | [16] | |||
George Creel | [26] | No | ||
John C. Cremony | Founding | [16] | No | |
Charles H. Crocker | [15] | |||
Charles Templeton Crocker | [15] | No | ||
William H. Crocker | [15][27] | No | ||
Joseph B. Crockett | [4] | No | ||
Harlan Crow | [28][29] | Yes | ||
Bartley Crum | [30] | No | ||
Melvin Earl Cummings | [15] | No | ||
William Curlett | [4] | No | ||
Charles S. Cushing | [12] | |||
Sidney B. Cushing | [4] | |||
Andrew McFarland Davis | Life | [16][22] | ||
Richmond P. Davis | [15] | |||
Willis E. Davis | [4][31] | No | ||
Paul W. de Fremery | [32] | |||
George Bowen De Long | [4] | |||
Eugene de Joly De Sabla Jr. | [15] | |||
Paolo De Vecchi | [4] | |||
Walter E. Dean | Life | [4] | ||
Henry C. Dibble | [4] | |||
Benjamin Dibblee | [15] | No | ||
Charles John Dickman | [16] | |||
Marshall Dill Sr. | [3] | |||
Steven Francis DiLorenzo | Honorary Life | [3] | Yes | |
Edwin R. Dimond | [15] | |||
Maynard Dixon | [19] | No | ||
George D. Dornin | [4] | |||
T. W. Morgan Draper | [4] | |||
William Henry Draper III | Hillbillies | [9] | Yes | |
Frank G. Drum | [15] | |||
William B. Dunning | [15] | |||
Guy C. Earl | [15] | |||
Robert M. Eberle | [4] | |||
Henry "Harry" Edwards | Founding | [4][13] | No | |
J. Paulding Edwards | [15] | |||
Zoeth S. Eldredge | [4] | No | ||
Felton B. Elkins | [15] | |||
Bobby Enriquez | [33] | No | ||
George H. Evans | [4] | |||
Richard Bunger Evans | [34] | Yes | ||
Wallace W. Everett Sr. | [15] | |||
James J. Fagan | [4] | |||
Charles W. Fay | [4] | |||
Philip R. Faymonville | [15] | |||
Charles N. Felton | [4] | No | ||
Watson D. Fennimore | [15] | |||
Chester Bailey Fernald | [4] | No | ||
Reginald Goodwin Fernald | [15] | |||
Manuel Y. Ferrer | [35] | No | ||
Charles K. Field | [4] | No | ||
George Russell Field | [15] | |||
Walter G. Filer | [15] | |||
Bush Finnell | [15] | |||
Leonard Firestone | Mandalay | [3][24] | No | |
Robert N. Fitch | [15] | |||
Jack C. Fitch | Owl's Nest | [8] | Yes | |
Robert Howe Fletcher | Honorary | [36] | ||
James L. Flood | [15] | |||
Ernest R. Folger | [15] | |||
Harry Stuart Fonda | [4] | No | ||
Lucius Harwood Foote | Honorary Life | [4] | No | |
Joseph C. Ford | [4] | |||
Tennessee Ernie Ford | [9] | No | ||
Tirey L. Ford | [15] | No | ||
Sands W. Forman | Founding | [4] | ||
Arthur W. Foster | [15] | |||
J. Eugene Freeman | [15] | |||
Paul Frenzeny | Founding | [19] | No | |
Emanuel Fritz | [3] | No | ||
Jacob L. Fuller | [4] | |||
William Parmer Fuller Jr. | [15] | |||
William May Garland | No | |||
Porter Garnett | [37] | No | ||
Albert Geberding | [12] | |||
Larry Gelbart | [20] | No | ||
Arnold Genthe | [4] | No | ||
Henry George | Founding | [3] | No | |
David Gergen | [38] | Yes | ||
Mario Giannini | [3] | No | ||
Daniel Coit Gilman | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Newt Gingrich | [39] | Yes | ||
Louis Glass | [15] | No | ||
George E. Goodfellow | [4] | No | ||
Charles A. Gove | [15] | |||
P. George Gow | [4] | |||
Donald de V. Graham | Honorary Life | [4] | ||
Joseph D. Grant | [4] | |||
Enrique Grau | [4] | |||
Clarence R. Greathouse | [4] | No | ||
Clay M. Greene | Honorary Life | [16] | No | |
Jeffrey T. Green | [16] | Yes | ||
Percy Grey | [19] | |||
Willard M. Griffin | [4] | |||
Joseph R. Grismer | [4] | No | ||
Archibald Clavering Gunter | [4] | No | ||
James F. Gurley | [12] | |||
Isidore Gutte | [12][22] | |||
Ray Hackett | [40] | No | ||
Henry Kimball Hadley | [16] | No | ||
William Hahn | [41] | No | ||
Reuben B. Hale | [4] | |||
George Eli Patrick Hall | [42] | |||
Andrew B. Hammond | [4] | No | ||
Theodore Michael Hampe | [4] | |||
Lewis E. Hanchett | [4] | |||
Arpad Haraszthy | Founding | [12][13] | No | |
William Greer Harrison | [4] | No | ||
Jerome A. Hart | [4][22] | |||
Bret Harte | Honorary | [9] | No | |
Fred L. Hartley | [9] | |||
J. Downey Harvey | [4] | |||
Charles D. Haven | [4] | |||
Alexander G. Hawes | [4][22] | |||
William Randolph Hearst | [3] | No | ||
Marcus H. Hecht | [4] | |||
Francis J. Heney | [4] | No | ||
Rudolph Herold Jr. | [4] | |||
Lester Herrick | [15] | |||
William F. Herrin | [4] | No | ||
Henry Heyman | [4] | No | ||
Barton Hill | [4] | |||
Charles Barton Hill | [4] | |||
Horace L. Hill | Life | [4] | ||
Thomas Hill | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Clark Hobart | [43] | No | ||
Ransom Gillet Holdredge | [44] | No | ||
Charles D. Hollister | [45] | |||
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. | Honorary | [3] | No | |
William Hood | [4] | |||
C. Osgood Hooker | [4] | |||
Herbert Hoover | Cave Man | [3][46] | No | |
Richard M. Hotaling | [12] | |||
Preston Hotchkis | Lost Angels | [3] | ||
Jack R. Howard | [9] | No | ||
Josiah Rowland Howell | [4] | |||
Charles Franklin Humphrey | [47] | |||
LeRoy P. Hunt | [12] | No | ||
Henry Edwards Huntington | [48] | No | ||
Rothwell Hyde | [4] | |||
Bobby Ray Inman | [49] | Yes | ||
Henry Irving | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Joseph Irwin | Founding | [4] | ||
Wallace Irwin | [4] | No | ||
William Henry Irwin | [12] | No | ||
Paul R. Isenberg | [12] | |||
George I. Ives | Life | [4] | ||
Livingstone Jenks | [4] | |||
Rufus P. Jennings | [4] | |||
Tom Johnson | [23] | Yes | ||
Patrick Michael Jones | [37] | |||
David Starr Jordan | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Christian Jorgensen | [19] | No | ||
Virgil W. Jorgenson | [12] | |||
Charles Josselyn | [15][22] | |||
Amedee Joullin | [4] | No | ||
Charles Chapel Judson | [4] | No | ||
Edgar F. Kaiser Sr. | [3] | No | ||
David Kawānanakoa | [4] | No | ||
Charles Keeler | [4] | No | ||
William Keith | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Charles Kendrick | [3] | No | ||
Edgar Stillman Kelley | Honorary | [50] | No | |
Frank G. Kenny | Founding | [4] | ||
Clark Kerr | Wayside Log | [3] | No | |
Henry Kissinger | Mandalay | [3] | No | |
Joe Knowland | [51] | No | ||
Joseph R. Knowland | [52] | No | ||
Victor H. Krulak | Owl's Nest | [53] | No | |
Lucien Labaudt | [16] | No | ||
James B. Lankershim | [4] | No | ||
Roger Lapham | [3] | No | ||
Barbour Lathrop | [15] | No | ||
Lorenzo Latimer | [19] | No | ||
William P. Lawlor | [15] | No | ||
Ernest O. Lawrence | Sons of Toil | [3] | No | |
Stephen Leach | [4] | |||
John Lehman | [3] | Yes | ||
George Lenczowski | [54] | No | ||
William M. Lent | [4] | |||
George Lette | [4] | |||
Jacob B. Levison | [4] | |||
Charles A. Lewis Jr. | [4] | |||
Philip N. Lilienthal | [4] | No | ||
Frederick L. Lipman | [4] | |||
Sara Jane Lippincott | Honorary | [1][36] | No | |
Louis Lisser | [4] | |||
Reuben H. Lloyd | Life | [4] | ||
Maurice Logan | [12] | No | ||
Jack London | Honorary | [3] | No | |
Louis Lundborg | [9] | |||
James K. Lynch | [4] | |||
M. Hall McAllister | [15] | |||
Atholl McBean | [3] | |||
James M. McDonald | Life, President 1890-1891 | [4][55] | ||
M. Jasper McDonald | Life | [4] | ||
Mark L. McDonald | Life | [4] | ||
Duncan McDuffie | [15] | No | ||
N. Loyall "Blackie" McLaren | Stowaway | [3] | ||
John McNaught | [56] | No | ||
Steven Lanier McKnight | [57] | No | ||
Pietro Mascagni | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Arthur Frank Mathews | [58] | No | ||
Nino Marcelli | [59] | No | ||
Ulderico Marcelli | [60] | No | ||
Henry Marshall | Honorary Life | [4] | No | |
Otis R. "Dock" Marston | Aviary | [61][62] | No | |
Xavier Martínez | [19] | No | ||
Bernard Maybeck | [7] | No | ||
Clarence W. W. Mayhew | [63] | No | ||
Stewart Menzies | [12][22] | No | ||
J. Henry Meyer | [15] | No | ||
Joaquin Miller | Honorary | [3] | No | |
Arthur W. Moore | [3] | |||
Henry S. Morgan | [9] | No | ||
William W. Morrow | [22] | No | ||
Carlton E. Morse | [64] | No | ||
Andrew J. Moulder | [12][13] | |||
Gabriel Moulin | [25] | No | ||
Thornwell Mullally | [15] | |||
Ovide Musin | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Benjamin F. Napthaly | Founding | [4] | ||
Paul Neumann | [4] | No | ||
Thomas Newcomb | Founding, Honorary | [13][36] | No | |
John Francis Neylan | Mandalay | [3] | No | |
Badea M. Nicholas | [7] | |||
George S. Nixon | [65] | No | ||
Richard Nixon | [66] | No | ||
Frank Norris | [19] | No | ||
Daniel O'Connell | Founding | [19] | No | |
Sean O'Keefe | Wayside Log | [67] | Yes | |
Roland Oliver | [3] | No | ||
William Letts Oliver | [37] | |||
Samuel Osbourne | [4][13][22] | |||
David Packard | [9] | No | ||
Ignacy Jan Paderewski | Honorary | [21] | No | |
Haig Patigian | [16] | No | ||
William A. Patterson Sr. | [9] | No | ||
William D. Patterson | [68] | No | ||
Edwin W. Pauley | [9] | No | ||
Theodore F. Payne | [4] | |||
Warren R. Payne | Life | [4] | ||
Edgar D. Peixotto | [15] | No | ||
Rudolph A. Peterson | [9] | No | ||
Timothy L. Pflueger | [69] | No | ||
James D. Phelan | [70] | No | ||
Herman Phleger | [3] | No | ||
Gottardo Piazzoni | [19] | No | ||
Irving Pichel | [71] | No | ||
Horace Garvin Platt | [4][22] | |||
Frank Hubbard Powers | [72] | No | ||
Richard E. Queen | [15] | |||
William Wilson Quinn | [73] | No | ||
Michael Raffetto | [64] | No | ||
Lee Fritz Randolph | [74] | No | ||
Ronald Reagan | Owl's Nest | [9] | No | |
Joseph D. Redding | [22][75] | |||
Granville Redmond | [19] | |||
William Henry Rhodes | [76] | No | ||
Eddie Rickenbacker | Cave Man | [9] | No | |
William Ritschel | [19] | No | ||
Julian Rix | [13][19] | No | ||
Peter Robertson | Honorary Life | [4] | ||
Robert C. Rogers | Founding | [4][13] | ||
Albert F. Roller | [12] | |||
James Rolph Jr. | [15] | No | ||
Theodore Roosevelt | Honorary | [36] | No | |
William M. Roth | [3] | No | ||
Wallace Arthur Sabin | [37] | No | ||
Tommaso Salvini | Honorary | [36] | No | |
J. H. Sayre | Founding | [4] | ||
Herman George Scheffauer | [25] | No | ||
Caspar Schenck | [4] | |||
Arnold Schwarzenegger | Guest-Speaker as the governor of California on July 30, 2010. | [20] | Yes | |
Frederick Seitz | [9] | No | ||
Glenn T. Seaborg | Wayside Log | [67] | No | |
William T. Sesnon | [12] | |||
Frederick Sherman | [21] | |||
J. Wilson Shiels | [37] | |||
Paul Shoup | [77] | No | ||
Shulgin T. Alexander | [78][79][80] | No | ||
George P. Shultz | Mandalay | [3] | No | |
Robert Sibley | [12] | No | ||
John L. Simpson | [3] | Yes | ||
H. E. Smith | [19] | |||
William French Smith | Mandalay | [9] | No | |
Tony Snow | [20] | No | ||
Will Sparks | [81] | No | ||
Adolph B. Spreckels | [15] | No | ||
Claus Spreckels | [15] | No | ||
Robert Gordon Sproul | Isle of Aves | [3] | No | |
Kevin Starr | Wayside Log | [3][67] | No | |
John Aloysius Stanton | [82] | No | ||
Paul Steindorff | [16] | |||
George Sterling | [9] | No | ||
Wallace Sterling | Cave Man | [9] | No | |
Humphrey John Stewart | Honorary Life | [37] | No | |
Charles Warren Stoddard | Honorary | [9][13] | No | |
Michael P. W. Stone | Hillbillies | [9] | No | |
C. H. Stoutenborough | Life | [4] | ||
Vanderlynn Stow | Stowaway | [37] | ||
Benjamin R. Swan | Life | [4] | ||
Jules Tavernier | [19] | No | ||
His Royal Highness Teak | Honorary | |||
H. F. Teschemacher | Life | [4] | ||
Newton J. Tharp | [83] | |||
John Charles Thomas | [84] | No | ||
Lowell Thomas Jr. | Cave Man | [9] | No | |
Lowell Thomas Sr. | Cave Man | [9] | No | |
Jeremy Edera | [84] | No | ||
Douglas Tilden | [85] | No | ||
Joseph Tilden | [12][13][86] | |||
F. L. Unger | Honorary Life | [4] | ||
Frank van Sloun | [19] | |||
Harry Volk | Lost Angels | [3] | No | |
Uda Waldrop | [16] | |||
William T. Wallace | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Bob Weir | [87] | Yes | ||
William V. Wells | [12] | No[88][89] | ||
F. Marion Wells | [4] | |||
Raphael Weill | [4][22] | No | ||
Caspar Weinberger | Isle of Aves | [9] | No | |
Carl Irving Wheat | [90] | No | ||
Benjamin Ide Wheeler | Honorary | [36] | No | |
Charles Stetson Wheeler | [15] | No | ||
Frederick Whymper | Founding | [16] | No | |
Ray Lyman Wilbur | Cave Man | [46] | No | |
Virgil Williams | Founding | [19][22] | ||
J. C. Williamson | Founding | [4] | No | |
Russell J. Wilson | Life | [4][13] | ||
William Winter | Honorary Life | [36] | No | |
Jean C. Witter | [3] | |||
Theodore Wores | [19] | No | ||
Herman Wouk | [3] | No | ||
Charles G. Yale | Honorary Life | [4][22] | ||
Rodney A. Yoell | [12] | |||
He was long a member of the Bohemian Club and identified with early growth of the art colony.