Who Is a Member of PBK?
Phi Beta Kappa is the most distinguished American honorary society. Leading scholars, government leaders, and scientists are among its members, including:
- Daniel Webster
- Chief Justice John Marshall
- Eli Whitney
- James Monroe
- John Quincy Adams
- John C. Calhoun
- Calvin Coolidge
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Supreme Court Justice Byron White
- Dean Rusk
- Robert McNamara
- 11 of the first 25 Presidents of the United States were members
- Horace Mann
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Washington Irving
- Booker T. Washington
- Henry James
- Henry Adams
- Alexander Graham Bell
- James Russell Lowell
- Mark Twain
- Edward Everett Hale
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
- Bret Harte
- Charles Francis Adams
- William Howard Taft
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Learned Hand
- George Santyana
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Jonas Salk
- Robert Frost
- Carl Sandburg
- Bernard Baruch
- Henry Kissinger
- William Rehnquist
- Betty Friedan
- Jimmy Carter
- Daniel Boorstin
- George H. W. Bush
- Gale Norton
- Caspar Weinberger
- Bill Clinton
- Lynne Cheney
- Condoleeza Rice
- Gloria Steinem
- Kris Kristofferson
- Susan Sontag
- Eleanor Smeal
- Jeb Bush
- Paul Wellstone
- E. J. Dionne
- Stephen Sondheim
- Rita Dove
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- John Updike
- Francis Ford Coppola
