Links Club

The Links is a private club in New York City. It is located at 36 East 62nd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Charles B. Macdonald, a golf champion and founder of the United States Golf Association, started the Links in 1917 as a place where powerful members of the golf world could keep the true spirit of the game alive.

History
The club was established in 1916-1917 by Charles B. Macdonald, in a building designed in the Georgian Revival architectural style by Cross & Cross. In the 1960s, it was "a preferred social gathering spot for America's most powerful chief executives." By 2010, it was still a "preserve of the old banking elite", but not all members were WASPs.

Notable members in 1955
A sampling of members in 1955 is listed below:

Government and diplomacy

 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States
 * Winthrop W. Aldrich, ambassador to Great Britain
 * Arthur A. Ballantine, Undersecretary of the Treasury and lawyer
 * Prescott S. Bush, U.S. Senator and father of President Bush (41)
 * Charles E. Daniel, U.S. Senator from South Carolina
 * Thomas E. Dewey, governor of New York
 * C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. ambassador to France, Future Secretary of the Treasury
 * Joseph E. Davies, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union
 * Thomas S. Gates, Jr., future U.S. Secretary of Defense
 * Walter S. Gifford, former chairman of A T & T, former Ambassador to the U.K.
 * Stanton Griffis, U.S. ambassador to Poland, Egypt, Spain and Argentina
 * Amory Houghton, CEO, Corning Glass Works, future U.S. Congressman
 * George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury
 * Herbert C. Hoover, Jr. son of the 31st President, Undersecretary of State and a member of the President’s cabinet
 * John A. McCone, future director of the C.I.A.
 * Jean Monnet, diplomat and founding father of the European Union
 * Winthrop Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller and Governor of Arkansas
 * Sir William Wiseman, British intelligence agent and banker
 * Cyrus R. Vance, future U.S. Secretary of State
 * John Hay Whitney, future U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain

Military

 * Oscar C. Badger, a four-star admiral in the U.S. Navy
 * Ralph A. Bard, undersecretary of the U.S. Navy
 * Dunbar W. Bostwick, lt. colonel, U.S. Army, helped organize Normandy invasion
 * Lucius D. Clay, U.S. general, Eisenhower deputy and "father" of the Berlin airlift
 * Robert A. Lovett, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
 * Paul Nitze, future Secretary of the Navy
 * Elwood R. Quesada, lieutenant general, U.S.A.F.
 * Stanley R. Resor, future U.S. Secretary of the Army
 * Kenneth Royall, Army brigadier general, last person to serve as Secretary of War
 * James Hopkins Smith, Jr., U.S. Secretary of the Navy
 * William Bedell Smith, Eisenhower’s chief of staff in WWII, four-star general, former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and former C.I.A director
 * Harold E. Talbott, Secretary of the Air Force
 * James H. Doolittle, U.S. general and famed aviator

Industry

 * Sewell L. Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward
 * Stephen D. Bechtel of the engineering and construction company
 * Sosthenes Behn, founder of ITT Corporation
 * Roger M. Blough, president of U.S. Steel Corporation
 * Harold Boeschenstein, chairman of Owens-Corning
 * Richard L. Bowditch, chairman U.S. Chamber of Commerce
 * H.S.M. Burns, British president of Shell Oil Company
 * Louis S. Cates, Chairman of Phelps Dodge
 * Owen R. Cheatham, chairman of Georgia Pacific Corporation
 * Colby M. Chester, chairman of General Foods Corporation
 * Hugh J. Chisholm, president of International Paper
 * George H. Coppers, chairman of Nabisco
 * Cleo F. Craig, president of AT&T
 * Walter F. Dillingham, “the Baron of Hawaiian Industry”
 * Richard R. Depree, president of Proctor & Gamble
 * Benjamin F. Fairless, CEO of U.S. Steel
 * Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Company
 * J. Peter Grace, Jr., Grace Chemical CEO
 * Augustus C. Long, CEO of Texaco
 * Henry R. Luce, publisher of Time Magazine
 * Joseph H. McConnell, former president of NBC
 * George W. Merck, president of Merck pharmaceuticals
 * Roger Milliken, CEO of Milliken textiles
 * Morehead Patterson, chairman of AMF
 * G. Willing Pepper, president of the Scott Paper Company
 * Gwilym A. Price, president of Westinghouse
 * Edgar Monsanto Queeny, chairman of Monsanto Corporation
 * Donald J. Russell, future CEO of Southern Pacific Railroad
 * Sidney A. Swensrud, chairman Gulf Oil
 * Walter C. Teagle, retired chairman of Standard Oil
 * Thomas J. Watson, Jr., president of IBM
 * Charles E. Wilson, former president of General Electric

Finance

 * Norborne Berkeley, president of Chemical Bank
 * Edward Eagle Brown, chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago
 * Paul C. Cabot, founded State Street Corporation and started the first mutual fund
 * Asa V. Call, president of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
 * Jean Cattier, Partner at White Weld & Co, and Chairman of the European American Bank
 * George Champion, chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
 * J. Luther Cleveland, chairman of the Guaranty Trust Company
 * S. Sloan Colt, president of the Bankers Trust Company
 * Isaac B. Grainger, president of Chemical Bank and future president U.S.G.A.
 * Benjamin H. Griswold III, chairman of Alex, Brown
 * E. Roland Harriman, co-founder of Brown Brothers Harriman
 * Devereux C. Josephs, chairman of the Board New York Life Insurance
 * John J. McCloy, future chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank, President World Bank
 * Henry S. Morgan, grandson of J.P. Morgan and co-founder of Morgan Stanley
 * Ralph Owen, chairman of American Express
 * Elmore C. Patterson, future CEO of J.P. Morgan
 * Ralph T. Reed, future CEO of American Express
 * David Rockefeller, future chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank
 * J. Stillman Rockefeller, president National City Bank
 * Howard C. Sheperd, chairman of National City Bank
 * Harold Stanley, co-founder of Morgan Stanley
 * Dean Witter, founder of Dean Witter investment firm

Aircraft and aviation

 * William E. Boeing, founder of the Boeing Airplane Company
 * F. Trubee Davison, WWI Naval Aviator
 * Robert E. Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft
 * Frederick B. Rentschler, chairman of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft
 * Edward V. Rickenbacker, World War I ace pilot
 * Leon A. Swirbul, founder of Grumman Aircraft

Born rich

 * Marshall Field, heir to the department store fortune
 * James H. McGraw, Jr. heir to the book publishing company
 * Paul Mellon, heir to the Mellon banking fortune and philanthropist
 * Howard Phipps, heir to the Carnegie Steel partner Henry Phipps, Jr.
 * Joseph N. Pew, heir to Sun Oil fortune, co-founder of the Pew Charitable Trusts
 * J. Watson Webb, film maker and heir to the Vanderbilt fortune

Golf and other pursuits

 * Morton G. Bogue, former president of the U.S.G.A.
 * C. Suydam Cutting, explorer
 * Donald K. David, dean of the Harvard BusinessSchool
 * Arthur H. Dean, chairman of the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell
 * Childs Frick, paleontologist and son of Steel magnate Henry Clay Frick
 * Totton P. Heffelfinger, president of the U.S.G.A.
 * Eugene V. Homans. Bobby Jones defeated Homans at Merion to win the grand slam in 1930
 * Roger D. Lapham, Mayor of San Francisco and co-founder of Cypress Point Club
 * Robert Montgomery, actor
 * Alfred Easton Poor, architect
 * Roland L. Redmond, president Metropolitan Museum of Art
 * Archie M. Reid, secretary of the U.S.G.A.
 * Clifford Roberts, co-founder of Augusta National Golf Club

Other
===1955 members featured on the cover of Time Magazine ===
 * Jack C. Massey
 * Charles Wilson
 * Colby Chester
 * Cyrus Vance
 * David Rockefeller
 * Dwight Eisenhower
 * Douglas Dillon
 * Eddie Rickenbacker
 * George Merck
 * Gwilym Price
 * Henry Ford II
 * Herbert Hoover, Jr.
 * James Doolittle
 * John McCloy
 * Joseph Davies
 * Joseph Pew
 * Lucius Clay
 * Roger Blough
 * Roger Lapham
 * Stillman Rockefeller
 * Thomas Dewey
 * Thomas Watson
 * Trubee Davison
 * Walter Teagle
 * Winthrop Rockefeller
 * List of traditional gentlemen's clubs in the United States
 * Article on the clubhouse and its architecture.