Famous Phi Beta Kappans

17 U.S. Presidents, including:

  • John Quincy Adams, Harvard University, 1787
  • Chester A. Arthur, Union College, 1848
  • William Howard Taft, Yale University, 1878
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard University, 1880
  • George H. W. Bush, Yale University, 1948
  • William Jefferson Clinton, Georgetown University, 1968

 

38 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, including:

  • John Marshall (Chief Justice), College of William & Mary, 1780
  • Salmon P. Chase (Chief Justice), Dartmouth College, 1826
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard University, 1829
  • William Howard Taft (Chief Justice), Yale University, 1878
  • Harlan Fiske Stone (Chief Justice), Amherst College, 1894
  • Felix Frankfurter, City College of New York, 1902
  • William O. Douglas, Whitman College, 1920
  • Harry A. Blackmun, Harvard University, 1929
  • Byron R. White, University of Colorado, 1938
  • John Paul Stevens, University of Chicago, 1941
  • William H. Rehnquist (Chief Justice), Stanford University, 1948
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cornell University, 1954
  • Anthony M. Kennedy, Stanford University, 1958
  • Stephen Breyer, Stanford University, 1959
  • David H. Souter, Harvard University, 1961
  • Samuel Alito, Princeton University, 1972
  • John G. Roberts, Jr. (Chief Justice), Harvard University, 1976
  • Sonia Sotomayor, Princeton University, 1976
  • Elena Kagan, Princeton University, 1981

 

Other notable members include:

  • Eli Whitney, Yale College, 1792
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bowdoin College, 1825
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bowdoin College, 1825
  • John Dewey, Vermont College, 1879
  • W. E. B. Dubois, Fisk University, 1890
  • Pearl Buck, Randoph-Macon Woman’s College, 1914
  • Alfred Kinsey, Bowdoin College, 1916
  • Grace Hopper, Vassar College, 1928
  • Nelson Rockefeller, Dartmouth College, 1930
  • Jonas Salk, City College of New York, 1930
  • Betty Friedan, Smith College, 1941
  • Phyllis Schlafly, Washington University, 1943
  • Henry Kissinger, Harvard University, 1950
  • Stephen Sondheim, Williams College, 1950
  • John Updike, Harvard University, 1954
  • Gloria Steinem, Smith College, 1955
  • Pat Schroeder, University of Minnesota, 1961
  • Joseph Lieberman, Yale University, 1964
  • Angela Davis, Brandeis University, 1965
  • Richard Blumenthal, Harvard University, 1967
  • Benazir Bhutto, Radcliffe College, 1973
  • Glenn Close, College of William & Mary, 1974
  • Condoleezza Rice, University of Denver, 1974
  • Ben Bernanke, Harvard University, 1975
  • Jeff Bezos, Princeton University, 1986

 

Want to know more? Check out the Wikipedia list of notable Phi Beta Kappa members.