Poor Richard Club

The club bestowed an annual Gold Medal of Achievement to several celebrities, including several U.S. Presidents.

The advertising industry was on a quest for more respectability, and the clubs were created as a way to promote and enforce ethical guidelines.

[2] The following year, the club purchased a large Victorian house at 239–241 Camac Street, where their weekly lunches and monthly dinners were held.

The club was instrumental in proposing, funding, and raising the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, built in 1933.

[4] On January 17, 1956, the club held their 50th anniversary dinner at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and honored then Vice President Richard Nixon with the Gold Medal of Achievement.