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The New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC) is an organization for members of the

state, and national Republican committees
.

New York City Republican organizations were once a bastion of

political right.[6]

History

Founding

In April 1911, thirty-two young men, led by a young Manhattan lawyer Benjamin M. Day, along with, Philip J. McCook,

Lloyd Carpenter Griscom, Frederick Paul Keppel, Henry W. Goddard, Edward R. Finch, Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr., Lindon Bates Jr., Thomas D. Thacher, Albert S. Bard, and Robert McC. Marsh,[7] formed the New York Young Republican Club. This was an offshoot of the earlier New York Young Men's Republican Club, founded in 1879 amid the rise of political clubs
, which itself was a descendant of the even earlier New York Young Men's Republican Union founded in 1856.

The club's first public appearance was a dinner held in December 1911. The guest of honor was the President of the United States, William Howard Taft, and the principal speaker was Idaho Senator William Borah.

In 1930, the New York Young Republican Club circulated a questionnaire to its members; of the 649 responses, an overwhelming number (424) supported the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment (which prohibited alcohol), 117 favored modification of the Volstead Act, and only 108 favored enforcement of prohibition.[8]

Dewey administration

The New York Young Republican Club was significant to the political network of Governor

John V. Lindsay, later mayor of New York City, joined the organization, which was an all-male group at the time.[9] He became vice president of the group in 1951 and (after Eisenhower's win in 1952, became president of the group).[9] During his presidency of the group, Lindsay was involved in an acrimonious internal battle between a faction led by Charles Miller Metzner (to whom Lindsay belonged) and a rival faction led by F. Clifton White and William A. Rusher.[9]

1964 elections

In 1964, the New York Times described the club as "not a large one" but "old and influential in Young Republican affairs."[10] That year, the club was described as having 1,200 members citywide.[11]

Amid the 1964 Republican presidential contest between New York's Republican Governor

Columbia College, and Fordham University, as well as the Young Women's Republican Club of New York, all of whom condemned Lindsay's decision.[11]

Since 2016

Addressing CPAC Hungary 2023

After the rise of

James O’Keefe, a journalist, attended the party. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Phil Murphy criticized it.[15]

The club endorsed the re-election of Brazilian president

military coup to keep Bolsonaro in power.[16]

In December 2022, the club held a gala event in

white nationalists, and members of the Freedom Party of Austria and Alternative for Germany, two extreme-right European parties with an authoritarian heritage.[17]

On July 31, 2023, the club endorsed Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele's re-election campaign ahead of the 2024 Salvadoran presidential election.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "About".
  2. ^ Surico, John (11 August 2015). "A Night Out in New York with the Young Republicans Supporting Donald Trump".
  3. ^ "The Young Men's Republican Union, organized in 1856 as the Young Men's Fremont and Dayton Central Union, have leased the old headquarters". Library of Congress.
  4. ^ "Find Your Club". New York State Young Republicans.
  5. ^ "Links - Manhattan Republican Party". www.manhattanrepublicanparty.com.
  6. ^ a b N.Y.C. Was Once a Bastion of G.O.P. Moderates. Then Trump Came Along., New York Times (October 17, 2020).
  7. ^ "Certificate of Incorporation".
  8. ^ Young Republicans Vote Wet in Canvass, New York Times (March 26, 1930).
  9. ^ a b c d Geoffrey Kabaservice, "On Principle: A Progressive Republican" in Summer in the City: John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream (Johns Hopkins University Press: 2014: ed. Joseph P. Viteritti), pp. 29-30.
  10. ^ a b City Young G.O.P. Club Election Won by Rockefeller Supporters, New York Times (February 22, 1964), p. 19.
  11. ^ a b State G.O.P. Leader Supports Both Lindsay and Goldwater, New York Times (August 5, 1964).
  12. ^ Young G.O.P. Here Backs Rockefeller for President, New York Times (April 29, 1964).
  13. ^ Walker, Hunter (January 28, 2023). "Meet Vish Burra, The Chaos Agent Behind The Most Scandalous Member Of Congress". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved January 29, 2023.
  14. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  15. ^ Associated Press and staff, New Jersey investigates Republican gala over Covid rule breaches, The Guardian (December 5, 2020).
  16. ^ Alex Griffing, New York Young Republicans Declare Bolsonaro Winner of Brazil Election He Lost: 'Send in the Tanks', Mediaite (October 31, 2022).
  17. ^ a b c d Jonathan Weisman, A New York Gala Draws Incoming G.O.P. Lawmakers, and Extremists, New York Times (December 14, 2022).
  18. ^ "Newsweek Embraces the Anti-Democracy Hard Right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2023-01-20.
  19. ^ "Endorsement: Nayib Bukele for President of El Salvador". New York Young Republican Club. July 31, 2023. Retrieved August 1, 2023.

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