The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note. Membership in the male-only, private

Bohemian Club The Bohemian Club is a private club with two locations: a city clubhouse in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California and the Bohemian Grove, a retreat north of the city in Sonoma County. Founded in 1872 from a regular meeting of journal ...

takes a variety of forms, with membership regularly offered to new university presidents and to military commanders stationed in the

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. Regular, full members are usually wealthy and influential men who pay full membership fees and dues, and who must often wait 15 years for an opening, as the club limits itself to about 2700 men. Associate members are graphic and musical artists, and actors, who pay lesser fees because of their usefulness in assisting with club activities in

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and at the

Bohemian Grove Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, United States, belonging to a private San Francisco–based gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, ...

. Professional members are associate members who have developed the ability to pay full dues, or are skilled professionals selected from the arts community. Honorary members are elected by club members, and pay no membership fees or annual dues. Four women were made honorary members in the club's first two decades, though they were not given the full privileges of regular club members. Several honorary members never availed themselves of the club's offer—there is no record of

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visiting the club, and Boston resident Oliver Wendell Holmes never visited but he responded immediately with a poem when notified by

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of the honor, despite being wakened at midnight. Each member is associated with a "camp", that is, one of 118 rustic sleeping and leisure quarters scattered throughout the Bohemian Grove, where each member sleeps during the two weeks (three weekends) of annual summer encampment in July. These camps are the principal means through which high-level business and political contacts and friendships are formed.Peter Martin Phillips
A Relative Advantage: Sociology of the San Francisco Bohemian Club
, 1994.

References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Bohemian Club
''Constitution and by-laws of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco''
1895 * Bohemian Club
''Constitution, By-laws, and Rules, Officers, Committees, and Members''
1904 * Bohemian Club
''Semi-centennial high jinks in the Grove''
July 28, 1922.

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, Sire. * Bohemian Club
''History, officers and committees, incorporation, constitution, by-laws and rules, former officers, members, in memoriam''
1960 * Bohemian Club
''History, officers and committees, incorporation, constitution, by-laws and rules, former officers, members, in memoriam''
1962 * Bohemian Club
''History, officers and committees, former officers, in memoriam, house rules, Grove rules''
1973 * Domhoff, G. William
''Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness''
Harper & Row, 1975. * Dulfer & Hoag

San Francisco, Dulfer & Hoag, 1925. * Garnett, Porter
''The Bohemian Jinks: A Treatise''
1908 * * Pinchard, Marguerite M
''The New society blue book; San Francisco, Oakland, Piedmont, Alameda''
1922, pp. 222–233. * Scheffauer, Herman George; Arthur Weiss; Bohemian Club
''The Sons of Baldur''
Bohemian Club, 1908. * Social Register. San Francisco Social Register, 1927

* Stephens, Henry Morse; Wallace Arthur Sabin, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Bohemian Club
''St. Patrick at Tara''
1909 Grove play * Wilson, Harry Leon; Domenico Brescia; Bohemian Club
''Life''
Bohemian Club, 1919. {{Bohemian Club * Bohemian Club members