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pIedSed IN 1avOr or the COnSlltCtlOn,
and in the convention proved to be
the strongest champion Of ratifica-
ton. Thus the Phi Beta Kappa men
held the balance of power in that
momentous convention and actually
determined the result.
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-FOUR of the Fifty Founders" be-
came members of the House of
Representatives-Sa Hardy, to
whom credit belongs for suggesting
the idea of granting charters to other
branches. so that Phi Beta Kappa
should ''be extended to each of the
United States" and for whom Hardy
County, w. Va, is named; Richard
Bland Lee, John Brown and John
Marshall. John Marshall also became
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court OF
the United States, and John Brown
became Senator from Kentucky.
Stevens Thompson Mason was Sem
ator from Virginia. Bushrod Wash
ington became an associate justice Of
the United States Supreme Court.
Spencer Roane became judge of the
Supreme Court Of Appeals of Virginia.
Peyton Short became a member of
the Senate Of Kentucky.
These so. most Of whom were in
their teens when they joined the Phi
Beta Kappa, within 10 years were
leaders in the affairs of state. Forty
one out Of = the fifty attained to dis
tinction in public affairs. The nine
others were influential men, among
them being William Madison. brother
OF James Madison; Thomas Lee, Lang
don Cabell, who was offered a cabinet
position by President Madison, but
declined; Thomas Cooke of Surrey,
and last, but by no means least,
Elisha Parmele, who graduated first
at Harvard, then drifted to Williams
burg, where he Joined the Phi Beta
Kappa, who carried the charters to
Harvard and Yale, thus perpetuating
the organization, and who was pastor
of church in Lee. Mass.
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ELEVEN members of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society have been Presi.
dents of the United States-including
Calvin Coolidge: and eight have been
Vice Observation-Disclosures Charles G.
Dawes. Here is the list:
John Quincy Adams, Harvard, 1887;
President from 1925 to 1929.
Martin Van Buren,, an honorary
member Of Union Chapter. elected in
1880; President from 1887 to 1s41.
Franklin Pierce, Bowdoin, 1924;
President from 1852 to 1857.
Rutherford Burchard Hayes, Ken
yon, 1912, elected to alumnus member.
ship in 1880; President from 1877 to
1881.
James Abram Garfield, Williams,
1856, an alumnus member of the chap
ter, elected at its institution, in 1864;
President from March to September
10. 1881.
Chester Alan Arthur, Union, 1s4s;
elected Vice President in 1880, an,
President from September, 1881, until
March, 1885.
Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard, 1880:
President from September. 1901, to
william Howard Taft, Yale, 1878:
President from 1909 to 1913.
Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, 1879,
an honorary member Of the Wesleyan
Chapter. elected in 1889, and a char.
ter member Of the Princeton Chapter
in 1893: President from 1918 to 1921.
Calvin Coolidge. Amherst, 1895,
elected to alumnus membership in
1921 at the celebration Of the Tooth
anniversary of the founding of the
college; Vice President from March
1921. to. August 2, 1928. when he sue
ceeded to the presidency; elected
November 4. 1924, and took the oath
Of ONCE publicly on March 4, 1926.
To make the presidential list com.
plete the name Of Grover Cleveland
Is added. He was made an honorary
member Of the Princeton Chapter in
1907. He was President from 1885 to
1889 and again from 1893 to 1897,
-Four Of those who became Presi-
dents had previously been Vice
Presideuts-one, Martin Van Buren,.
Was pronotqd to the pgesidenOy at The