Arlington Club

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The Arlington Club is a private social club organized in 1867 by 35 business and banking leaders of Portland, Oregon. It is organized as a 501(c)(7) First called the Social Club and later renamed the Arlington Club, it offered its all-male, largely white membership consisting of banking and business leadership. During its first century, a total of more than 3,300 men were club members at one time or another. Many, in addition to pursuing their livelihoods, were officers in civic, cultural, philanthropic, or social organizations, and some held government posts at the local, state, or federal levels. For about 100 years, the club excluded Jews and minorities regardless of other criteria, and for 123 years it excluded women. In response to public pressure, it broadened the membership criteria for men by the late 1960s and for women in 1990.