(Courtesy of the National Office of Phi Beta Kappa)

Presidents

• John Quincy Adams, Harvard University, 1787

• Chester A. Arthur, Union College, 1848

• George H. W. Bush, Yale University, 1947

• William Jefferson Clinton, Georgetown University, 1968

• Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard University, 1880

• William Howard Taft, Yale University, 1878

Jurists and Supreme Court Justices

• Harry Blackmun, Harvard University, 1929

• Felix Frankfurter, CUNY, 1902

• Anthony M. Kennedy, Stanford University, 1958

• Learned Hand, Harvard University, 1893

• John Marshall, College of William and Mary, 1780

• Lewis R. Powell, Jr., Washington and Lee University, 1929

• William H. Rehnquist, Stanford University, 1948

• David H. Souter, Harvard University, 1961

• John Paul Stevens, University of Chicago, 1941

• Byron R. White, University of Colorado, 1938

Other Notables

• James Billington, Princeton University, 1950

• Daniel Boorstin, Harvard University, 1934

• John C. Calhoun, Yale University, 1804

• Benjamin N. Cardozo, Columbia University, 1804

• Francis Ford Coppola, Hoftstra University, 1959

• Elizabeth Dole, Duke University, 1958

• William O. Douglass, Whitman College, 1920

• Rita Dove, Miami University, 1973

• Betty Friedan, Smith College, 1941

• Med Greenfield, Smith College, 1952

• Edward Everett Hale, Harvard University, 1839

• Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bowdoin College, 1825

• Christie Hefner, Brandeis University, 1973

• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harvard University, 1829

• Charles Evans Hughes, Brown University, 1909

• Henry Kissinger, Harvard University, 1950

• Kris Kristofferson, Pomona College, 1958

• Arthur Levitt, Jr., Williams College, 1952

• Flora Lewis, UCLA, 1942

• Walter Lippmann, Harvard University, 1910

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bowdoin College, 1825

• Archibald McLeish, Yale University, 1915

• Cyrus McCormick, Princeton University, 1912

• Sylvia Field Porter, Hunter College, 1933

• Frank Press, CCNY, 1944

• Paul Robeson, Rutgers University, 1919

• John D. Rockfeller, Brown University, 1897

• Nelson Rockefeller, Dartmouth College, 1930

• Dean Rusk, Davidson College, 1931

• Jonas Salk, CCNY, 1934

• George Santayana, Harvard University, 1886

• Phyllis Schlafly, Washington University, 1944

• Pat Schroeder, University of Minnesota, 1961

• L. William Seidman, Dartmouth College, 1943

• Eleanor Cutri Smeal, Duke University, 1961

• Howard K. Smith, Tulane University, 1936

• Stephen Sondheim, Williams College, 1950

• Gloria Steinem, Smith College, 1955

• John Updike, Harvard University, 1954

• Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College, 1801

• Caspar Weinberger, Harvard University, 1938

• Eli Whitney, Yale University, 1792

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