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The Pacific-Union Club is a gentlemen's club located at 1000 California Street in San Francisco, California, at the top of Nob Hill. It was founded in 1889 as a merger of two earlier clubs: the Pacific Club (founded 1852) and the Union Club (founded 1854). Women are excluded as per the club's charter. The clubhouse was built as the home for the silver magnate James Clair Flood. The former Flood Mansion is located in the Nob Hill neighborhood. It was designed by Willis Polk. It is considered the first brownstone constructed west of the Mississippi River. Along with the Fairmont Hotel across the street, it was the only structure in the area to survive the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
This club figured prominently in the history of the west coast of the United States. Many prominent citizens have been active among its membership.
Club bylaws restrict members from speaking about the club's activities to the press saying "No information regarding any Club activity or function shall be released by anyone to the media."
List of club presidents
With Dates of their Election.
- Richard P. Hammond 1889
- Thomas C. Van Ness 1889-1891
- Russell J. Wilson 1891-1892
- Jared L. Rathbone 1892
- Charles Page 1892-1893
- Henry T. Scott 1893-1895
- Joseph B. Crockett 1895-1896
- Edward W. Hopkins 1896-1897
- A. Chesebrough 1897-1898
- George Whittell 1898
- Chauncey R. Winslow 1898-1899
- Horace G. Platt 1899-1900
- James W. Byrne 1900-1902
- W. Mayo Newhall 1902-1903
- James W. Byrne 1903-1905
- Wakefield Baker 1905-1906
- Edgar J. De Pue 1906-1908
- William Bowers Bourn II 1908-1911
- Archibald C. Kains 1909
- Albert H. Payson 1911-1912
- George A. Pope 1912-1913
- William H. Crocker 1913-1914
- Charles K. McIntosh 1914-1915
- Charles P. Eells 1915-1916
- Frederick S. Moody 1916-1917
- Frederick S. Moody 1917-1918
- William Sproule 1918-1919
- Frank D. Madison 1919-1920
- Frank D. Madison 1920-1921
- Kenneth R. Kingsbury 1921-1922
Prominent Members
- Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense
- John Barneson, Founder General Petroleum Corporation, General Pipe Line Company
- R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., Prominent Geologist
- Samuel F. B. Morse Sr.
- Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense
- Randolph Apperson Hearst
- Tirey L. Ford, California Attorney General
- William Randolph Hearst, Jr.
- William Randolph Hearst III
- William S. Mailliard
- William Henry Draper III, Businessman
- Benjamin Dillingham
- Charles R. Schwab, Founder, Charles Schwab Corporation
- William Redington Hewlett, Co-founder Hewlett Packard
- David Packard, Co-founder Hewlett Packard and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Warren A. Bechtel, Founder Bechtel Corporation
- Stephen Bechtel, Jr., Former CEO Bechtel Corporation
- Riley P. Bechtel, CEO Bechtel Corporation
- Walter A. Haas, Jr., CEO (1958-1976) and chairman (1970-1981) of Levi Strauss & Co
- Henry J. Kaiser, Engineer and founder of Kaiser Family Foundation
- Paul B. Fay, Former Undersecretary of the Navy and PT-109 crewmate of John F. Kennedy.
- Benjamin Biaggini, Former President and CEO, Southern Pacific Railroad
- William Lane Booker, British diplomat.
- Donald J. Russell, Former President, Southern Pacific Railroad
- Henry F. Grady, First US Ambassador to India; Dean of the Commerce department at the University of California, Berkeley; President of American President Lines