Union Club of The City of New York - Notable Members

Notable Members

  • John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912), millionaire and RMS Titanic victim
  • James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1841-1918), publisher of the New York Herald, bon vivant and eponym of the British exclamation "Gordon Bennett!"
  • William Bayard Cutting (1850-1912), attorney, financier, real estate developer, sugar beet refiner and philanthropist
  • Edward Cooper (1824-1905), mayor of New York City
  • Frank Crowninshield (1872-1947), journalist and art and theatre critic
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), thirty-fourth President of the United States
  • John Ericsson (1803-1899), inventor and mechanical engineer who designed the USS Monitor
  • Cyrus West Field (1819-1892), businessman and financier who led the Atlantic Telegraph Company
  • Luis de Florez (1889-1962), Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and aerospace pioneer
  • William M. Evarts (1818-1901), lawyer, US Secretary of State, US Attorney General and US Senator
  • Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), eighteenth President of the United States
  • Andrew Haswell Green (1820-1903), lawyer and city planner
  • Moses H. Grinnell (1803-1877), shipper and Central Park commissioner during its design and construction
  • E. H. Harriman (1848-1909), railroad magnate
  • W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986), politician, businessman and diplomat
  • William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), newspaper magnate
  • Philip Hone (1780-1851), mayor of New York City and 19th century diarist
  • Hugh Alwyn Inness-Brown, Sr., New York publisher and journalist
  • J. Bruce Ismay (1862-1937), managing director of the White Star Line and RMS Titanic survivor
  • Leonard Jerome (1817-1891), financier and grandfather of Winston Churchill
  • John Alsop King (1788-1867), governor of New York
  • Ward McAllister (1827–1895), self-appointed arbiter of New York society from the 1860s to the early 1890s
  • Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), professor and credited author of A Visit from St. Nicholas
  • J. P. Morgan (1837-1913), financier, banker, philanthropist, and art collector
  • Winfield Scott (1786-1866), United States Army general
  • Philip H. Sheridan (1831-1888), general in the Union Army
  • William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), general in the Union Army and businessman, educator, and author
  • Leland Stanford (1824-1893), business magnate, politician and founder of Stanford University
  • Edwin Augustus Stevens (1795-1868), founder of the Stevens Institute of Technology
  • John Cox Stevens (1785-1857), first Commodore of the New York Yacht Club and member of the syndicate that won the first America's Cup trophy in 1851
  • A. T. Stewart (1803-1876), retailing pioneer
  • Rutherford Stuyvesant (1843-1909), builder of the first apartment building in New York City in 1869
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877), shipping and railroad entrepreneur
  • Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (1884-1970), railroad executive, yachtsman and bridge player
  • Sumner Welles (1892-1961), government official and diplomat
  • James T. Woodward (1837–1910), banker and owner of major thoroughbred horse dynasty

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