The Alfalfa Club, founded in 1913, is an exclusive social organization, based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The Club's only function is the holding of an annual banquet in honor of the birthday of Civil War Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Its members are composed mostly of American politicians and influential members of the business community, and have included several Presidents of the United States. Members (incomplete) Presidents George W. Bush George H. W. Bush Ronald Reagan Gerald Ford Richard Nixon John F. Kennedy Harry S. Truman Joseph Biden Jr. Vice Presidents Dick Cheney Dan Quayle Walter Mondale Nelson Rockefeller Spiro Agnew Secretaries of State Mike Pompeo John Kerry Condoleezza Rice Colin Powell Madeleine Albright James Baker III George P. Shultz Henry Kissinger John Foster Dulles Dean Acheson Secretaries of Defense Jim Mattis (current vice president of the club) Robert Gates Donald Rumsfeld Neil McElroy James R. Schlesinger Other Cabinet Officials Robert Mosbacher Donna Shalala Members of Congress Lamar Alexander Kelly Ayotte Robert F. Bennett Cory Booker David Boren Prescott Bush Shelley Moore Capito Christopher A. Coons Tom Daschle Debbie Dingell Elizabeth Dole David Dreier Joni Ernst Dianne Feinstein Newt Gingrich Barry Goldwater Barry Goldwater, Jr. Orrin Hatch Tim Kaine Jack Kemp William Knowland Joe Lieberman John McCain Kevin McCarthy Claire McCaskill Mitch McConnell Daniel Patrick Moynihan Ben Nelson Rob Portman Chuck Robb Jay Rockefeller Mitt Romney Chuck Schumer Mark Warner Governors Jeb Bush Mayors Michael Bloomberg Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg William Rehnquist Sandra Day O'Connor Earl Warren John Roberts Anthony Kennedy Judges William T. Coleman, Jr. Ambassadors David M. Abshire Richard Helms Military Officials Neil Armstrong James Holloway III David Charles Jones Curtis LeMay David Petraeus William Westmoreland FBI Directors William S. Sessions Federal Reserve Chairmen Alan Greenspan Business people Brendan Bechtel, Bechtel CEO Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Steve Case, AOL founder Timothy C. Collins, finance Michael Dell, Dell founder Raul Fernandez, Proxicom founder Steve Forbes, Forbes editor-in-chief Bill Gates, Microsoft founder Katharine Graham, Washington Post publisher William Grayson, finance Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed CEO Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute CEO, author Jay L. Johnson, former Navy CNO and General Dynamics CEO William B. Harrison Jr., JPMorgan Chase CEO Bill Marriott, Marriott International CEO Bill McSweeny, Occidental Petroleum President Robert Mondavi, winemaker Ross Perot, Electronic Data Systems founder Russ Ramsey, founder Catherine Reynolds, student loans, philanthropist David Rubenstein, finance Donald