charter member

No one would mistake Chris Christie for a charter member of the kumbaya caucus.

Mr. Mohr became a charter member of the first Bakers' Union in 1889 and was its first presiding officer.

It is near a grove of plantains, on which the gorilla feasts with the gusto of a charter member of the Gourmand Club.

They were not quite up to clubs in those days, or she would have been a charter-member.

I'm eligible on both sides, an' me mother was a charter member.

At the institution of the present Wyandotte Tribe, No. 3, he became a charter member, and his honors were recognized.