ORGANIZATION

Elite New York City social club, founded 1846 by Asher B. Durand, John F. Kenesett, William Cullen Bryant, et. al. Incorporated March 7th 1857.

Founding Date:
1846

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Max Abramovitz	Architect	23-May-1908	12-Sep-2004	Designed UN Headquarters
Louis Auchincloss	Author	27-Sep-1917	26-Jan-2010	Portrait in Brownstone
Daniel Bell	Sociologist	10-May-1919	25-Jan-2011	The End of Ideology
William Cullen Bryant	Poet	3-Nov-1794	12-Jun-1878	Editor, The New York Evening Post
Stephen B. Burbank	Educator	c. 1946		UPenn Law Professor
Frederic Edwin Church	Painter	4-May-1826	7-Apr-1900	American landscape painter
Grenville Clark	Attorney	5-Nov-1882	13-Jan-1967	World Peace Through World Law
Orvil Dryfoos	Publisher	8-Nov-1912	26-May-1963	New York Times Publisher, 1961-63
Gerald M. Edelman	Scientist	1-Jul-1929	17-May-2014	Chemical structure of antibodies
Ralph Ellison	Novelist	1-Mar-1914	16-Apr-1994	Invisible Man
Richard S. Emmet	Attorney	8-Apr-1897	5-Oct-1969	Counsel to the Bank of New York
Murray Gell-Mann	Physicist	15-Sep-1929		Quarks and strangeness
Henry A. Grunwald	Journalist	3-Dec-1922	26-Feb-2005	Managing Editor of Time, 1968-79
Joan W. Konner	Journalist	c. 1929		Dean, Columbia School of Journalism, 1988-97
David Laventhol	Publisher	15-Jul-1933	8-Apr-2015	President of Times Mirror, 1987-93
David Levine	Cartoonist	20-Dec-1926	29-Dec-2009	Caricaturist, New York Review of Books
Edward Luck	Scholar	?		International Affairs professor at Columbia
John Mendelsohn	Biologist	31-Aug-1936		Cancer researcher
Richard Posner	Judge	11-Jan-1939		7th Circuit Court of Appeals
Cyrus Vance	Government	27-Mar-1917	12-Jan-2002	US Secretary of State, 1977-80
Christopher J. Williams	Business	c. 1958		Williams Capital Group
Charles W. Yost	Diplomat	6-Nov-1907	21-May-1981	US Ambassador to the UN, 1969-71

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