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This is a list of notable members of the Phi Beta Kappa who have Wikipedia biographies. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Number [a] Chapter Charter date and range Institution Location Status Reference 1: Alpha of Virginia: December 5, 1776 –1780,1851–1860,1893: College of William & Mary ...
The Phi Beta Kappa Society publishes The Key Reporter, [22] a newsletter distributed quarterly to all contributing members and biannually to all other members, and The American Scholar, a quarterly subscription-based journal that accepts essays on literature, history, science, public affairs, and culture.
Abram W. Harris, president of Northwestern University and University of Maine, a founder of Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Delta Tau; Matina Horner, sixth president of Radcliffe College; Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Leon H. Johnson, president of Montana State University
Beta Kappa (Charter member: Kappa Chi) U.S. House of Representatives member from Virginia [32] James Perkins, Jr. Gamma Phi: First African-American Mayor of Selma, Alabama [38] Edward J. Perkins: Alexandria-Fairfax (VA) Alumni: US Ambassador to Liberia, South Africa, the United Nations, and Australia [39] Kwame Raoul: Theta Zeta
Representatives of Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi attended its preliminary meeting held on October 2, 1925. When ACHS was officially established on December 30, 1925, its founding members were Alpha Omega Alpha, the Order of the Coif, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi. [2]
In the United States, the oldest academic society, Phi Beta Kappa, was founded as a social and literary fraternity in 1776. Other honor societies were established a century later, including Tau Beta Pi for engineering (1885), Sigma Xi for scientific research (1886), and Phi Kappa Phi for all disciplines (1897).
The Phi Beta Kappa society had a rudimentary initiation and maintained an uncertain level of secrecy. Those secrets were exposed in the mid-1830s by students at Harvard University acting under the patronage of John Quincy Adams. Since the 1840s, Phi Beta Kappa has operated openly as an academic honor society.