philanthropist William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849–1920), horse breeder Monte Waterbury (1876–1920), businessman, polo player William Collins Whitney (1841–1904), United States Secretary of the Navy, financier Other notable members Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert (1861–1952), architect Charles H. Tenney (1842–1919), merchant and banker Edward Eugene Loomis (1864–1937), railroad executive Frederick Townsend Martin (1849–1914), writer and advocate for the poor George Goelet Kip (1845-1926), lawyer James L. Holloway III (1922–2019), United States Navy admiral and naval aviator James T. Woodward (1837–1910), banker Jerauld Wright (1898–1995), United States Navy admiral Larry Pressler (born 1942), Republican politician and the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the United States Senate Levi Parsons Morton (1824–1920), minister to France, Republican vice president under Benjamin Harrison, governor of New York and second president of The Metropolitan Club Pippa Malmgren (born 1962), politics and policy expert Ray Price (1930–2019), chief speechwriter of President Richard Nixon Robert Maclay (1834–1898), merchant, business executive, and civic activist Robert Winthrop (1833–1892), banker Spruille Braden (1894–1978), diplomat, businessman, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and past president Walter Eli Clark (1869–1950), journalist and newspaper publisher Walter J. Cummings, Jr. (1916–1999), United States Solicitor General and federal judge William Astor Chanler (1867–1934), soldier, explorer, and United States Representative William Dawes Miller ( 1918–1993), engineer and past president William L. Harkness (1858–1919), Standard Oil heir and philanthropist Woodbury Kane (1859–1905), yachtsman and member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders See also List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan from 59th to 110th Streets List of traditional gentlemen's clubs in the United States References Notes Citations Bibliography External links 1891 establishments in New York (state) Clubs and societies in New York City Clubs and societies in the United States Fifth Avenue Gentlemen's clubs in New York City McKim, Mead & White buildings New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan Organizations established in 1891 Upper East Side