Corsair Club
deep state milieu, dining club
| Corsair Club () | |
|---|---|
| File:Corsair III.jpg The Corsair III in Venice in 1902. | |
| Founder | J. P. Morgan |
| Extinction | 1913? |
| Membership | J. P. Morgan, William Rockefeller, Chauncey Depew, Charles D. Lanier, George Bowdoin, Frank K. Sturgis, David Egleston, Elihu Root, William Turnbull, Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| A dining club founded by the head of the US deep state over a century ago. Its 12 members gathered for off the record conversations. It is not known to have survived J. P. Morgan's death in 1913. | |
The Corsair Club was a ruling class dining club, quite probably founded by J. P. Morgan, since it was named after his luxury yacht.
Official narrative
Wikipedia has nothing to say about the Corsair Club, although it was the subject of at least one report in the commercially-controlled media (a 1913 article in the New York Times).[1]
Etymology
In 1881, J. P. Morgan bought the Corsair, a 185-foot luxury yacht. In 1890 he commissioned the 241-foot Corsair II, in 1898 the 304-foot Corsair III[2] and in 1930 the 343-foot Corsair IV.[3] [4]
Membership
J. P. Morgan is the presumed founder member of the club. The 1913 NYT article mentions Chauncey Depew. The banker and railroad executive Charles D. Lanier was also a member.[5] Other original members included George Bowdoin, Frank K. Sturgis, David Egleston and William Turnbull[6] [7] and Elihu Root[8]
Exposure
The group became publicised to outsiders when J. Pierpont Morgan died, since in his will he left silver souvenirs, of the value $1,000 each, to "the members of the Corsair Club at the time of my death."[9]
Dates
It is unknown whether the group continued after J. P. Morgan's death in 1913.
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200412115624/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/04/27/100615885.pdf
- ↑ https://luxuryestates.com.au/property-investor-stories/eight-ways-j-p-morgan-defined-the-good-life/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/the-tragic-life-of-the-corsair-iv/ saved at Archive.is
- ↑ https://www.cruiselinehistory.com/j-p-morgans-fo/
- ↑ Vincent P. Carosso, Rose C. Carosso, "The Morgans" (Harvard University Press, 1987) p. 248
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_D._Lanier
- ↑ The Great Pierpont Morgan: A Biography By Frederick Lewis Allen
- ↑ https://kingauthor.co/books/Edmund%20Morris/Theodore%20Rex/Theodore%20Rex%20-%20Edmund%20Morris.pdf
- ↑ Document:The Corsair Club Mentioned In J. P. Morgan's Will