Membership
According to the Club's first constitution, new members of the Club had to be elected unanimously. Later, the requirement was lowered to a two-thirds majority.
Thirty men belonged to the Club at one time or another, though no more than fifteen were ever present at any given meeting. A list of these members follows, with founding members listed in italics:
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So prominent were these men in the history of Kentucky that Thomas Speed II opined "Full and complete biographies of some of the members would present a history of Kentucky from the beginning of its settlement past the first quarter of the ensuing century." Eleven different Club members participated in at least one of the ten constitutional conventions that helped separate Kentucky from Virginia. Samuel McDowell was president and Todd was secretary of the 1792 convention that produced the first Kentucky Constitution.
The Kentucky Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge was closely associated with the Danville Political Club. Fifteen men were members of both organizations, and some believe the Society was an adjunct of the Danville Political Club. Both organizations were active at about the same time and frequently debated the same or similar subjects.
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