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301	Name:	Dr. Hans A. Bethe
	Institution:	Cornell University
	Year Elected:	1947
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	106. Physics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1906
	Death Date:	March 6, 2005

302	Name:	George W. Bethune
	Year Elected:	1839
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	4/28/1862

303	Name:	William Bettle
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	3/10/1734
	Death Date:	3/20/1773

	William Bettle (10 March 1734–c. 20 March 1773) was a tanner and a member of the Young Junto, elected in 1766. Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Bettle was the son of a prosperous Quaker tanner who moved his family to Philadelphia in 1749. By 1761, the younger Bettle was operating a tanyard of his own in the city’s Northern Liberties. As the population of that area increased, Bettle joined APS members Moses and Isaac Bartram in petitioning the Pennsylvania Assembly to appoint municipal officers and regulate its public works. Bettle was also a contributor to the Silk Society, a donor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and a director of the Library Company. At the meetings of the Young Junto, he submitted queries for discussion concerning the moral effects of the theater and the relative merits of civil society and the state of nature. (PI)

304	Name:	Samuel Betton
	Year Elected:	1828
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	6/9/1850

305	Name:	Thomas F. Betton
	Year Elected:	1857
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	5/21/1875

306	Name:	Dr. David M. Bevington
	Institution:	University of Chicago
	Year Elected:	1986
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	402. Criticism: Arts and Letters
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1931
	Death Date:	August 2, 2019

	A Shakespeare scholar and medievalist, David M. Bevington became professor of English at the University of Chicago in 1967. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1959, where he also worked as an instructor before going on to teach at the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago. He authored a number of books on Shakespeare and medieval drama, including From Mankind to Marlowe, Tudor Drama and Politics, and Action is Eloquence: Shakespeare's Language of Gesture. He was the editor of Medieval Drama and The Complete Works of Shakespeare, one of the three standard one-volume study editions. Later in life, he updated the 29-volume paperback edition of the Shakespeare canon that he first published in 1988 as well as co-editing The Cambridge Edition of The Works of Ben Jonson. In addition to courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and medieval drama, he co-taught a course on the history and theory of drama from the 5th century B.C. to the present day and in 2018 was still teaching courses on education. David Bevington died on August 2, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 88.

307	Name:	Dr. Jagdish N. Bhagwati
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	1995
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	302. Economics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1934

	A native of India, Jagdish Bhagwati attended Cambridge University where he graduated in 1956 with a first in Economics Tripos. He then continued to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Oxford, returning to India in 1961 as Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, and then as Professor of International Trade at the Delhi School of Economics. He returned to MIT in 1968, leaving it twelve years later as the Ford International Professor of Economics. He currently holds the position of University Professor of Economics and Law at Columbia University and is a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Bhagwati was Economic Policy Advisor to the Director General of GATT from 1991-93 and also served as Special Advisor to the United Nations on Globalization and External Advisor to the Director General of the World Trade Organization. Additionally, he served as a member of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's Advisory Group on the NEPAD process in Africa . Five volumes of his scientific writings and two of his public policy essays have been published by MIT Press. The recipient of six festschrifts in his honor, he has also received several prizes and honorary degrees. Professor Bhagwati has published more than three hundred articles and fifty volumes and also writes frequently for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times and has reviewed for The New Republic and The Times Literary Supplement. Professor Bhagwati is described as the most creative international trade theorist of his generation and is a longtime defender of free trade. His most recent books include: The Wind of the Hundred Days: How Washington Mismanaged Globalization (2002), In Defense of Globalization (2004), and Termites in the Trading System: How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade (2008).

308	Name:	Clement Biddle
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	5/10/1740
	Death Date:	8/11/1814

	Clement Biddle (10 May 1740–14 July 1814) was a merchant and military officer and a member of the Young Junto, elected in 1766. Born in Philadelphia into a prominent family (his great-grandfather was one of the proprietors of West New Jersey), Biddle spent a year in Barbados before becoming a partner in his father’s mercantile business. He presented a Native American belt to the American Society, collected subscriptions to the Silk Society, and donated to the Pennsylvania Hospital and College of Philadelphia. He was also active in politics, forming a militia company to defend Conestoga Indians from the Paxton Boys in the wake of the Lancaster massacre, signing the Non-Importation Agreement, and supporting Pennsylvania’s radical new constitution. During the War of Independence, he organized two volunteer infantry companies (the “Quaker Blues”) and held numerous offices in the Continental Army, including lieutenant colonel and deputy quartermaster general for the militia of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, volunteer aide-de-camp under General Nathanael Greene, and commissary general of forage. He fought in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, and received special recognition for his role in the Battle of Trenton from George Washington, for whom Biddle later acted as a commercial factor. In 1780 he was named marshal of the Pennsylvania court of admiralty, and the following year he became quartermaster general of the state militia at the rank of colonel. After the Revolution, he served as U.S. marshal for Pennsylvania and justice of the Court of Common Pleas. His brother Owen Biddle was a member of the Young Junto; and his sons Thomas Biddle, John G. Biddle, and Clement C. Biddle; brother-in-law James Wilkinson; sons-in-law Nathaniel Chapman and Thomas Cadwalader; and grandson John Barclay Biddle were APS members. (PI, ANB, DAB)

309	Name:	Edward Biddle
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1738
	Death Date:	10/5/1779

	Edward Biddle (1738–2 September 1779) was a soldier, lawyer, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born into a family which in the coming years transcended their roots, Edward’s most substantial formation occurred on the Pennsylvania frontier during the Seven Years’ War (1754–63). A 1755 attack by French native-allies on Reading spurred Biddle into the provincial forces—but one of the most substantive lessons came from his interactions with native allies of the British, who proved principled, honest, and respectable. After the war he began to read law, and by 1767 became a delegate to the Provincial Assembly—and was popular enough to gain reelection despite his asking not to serve starting in 1772, up until the Revolution. He became Speaker of the House in 1774. As the crisis came, Biddle’s neighbors sent him to the Continental Congresses of 1774 and 1775; among other offices, he was a delegate to the Provincial Commission in 1775. The fates turned against Biddle that same January: journeying down the Schuylkill River, Biddle plunged overboard into the icy waters. Overwarmed by too much recuperative wine at an inn, Biddle proceeded to beat the landlord for some remarks of disaffection; a combination of pneumonia and sepsis ultimately took one of Biddle’s eyes and most of his life’s vigor. Although continually reelected to Congress, his health prevented much of his participation in the crucial political debates of the day. A markedly devout Anglican, Biddle was laid to rest at St. Paul’s in Baltimore, where he died. (PI)

310	Name:	James Biddle
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	2/18/1731
	Death Date:	6/14/1797

	James Biddle (18 February 1731/32–14 June 1797) was a lawyer and a public officeholder, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1768. Born in Philadelphia, his early education was put to good use when he began to study law under James Ross. By 1752 he began his own legal practice in Reading and soon expanded to neighboring counties. Biddle’s success was critical for his family’s maintenance but also (after the death and financial ruin of his father in 1756) his mother and his younger siblings. Biddle moved back to Philadelphia in 1760 or 1761 where his successful legal career paved the way for appointed city offices including deputy registrar of the Court of Vice-Admiralty and deputy prothonotary of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas (under APS member James Hamilton). As a member of the Proprietary party, he gave a spirited election address, To the Freeholders and Electors of the Province of Pennsylvania, that garnered significant attention at a public meeting in 1765. In it, he attacked Benjamin Franklin (in absentia) for not opposing the Stamp Act and supporting other direct taxes while friends of Franklin roundly dismissed the words of this “pitifull & low Attorney.” During the revolution, Biddle served the region on the Committee of Safety of the Province as well as a captain in the Third Battalion of Pennsylvania Associators. Following the war, he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia county from 1788 until his sudden death in 1797. Aside from practicing law, he made time for other local institutions such as becoming a member of the Union Library Company and subscribing to the Silk Society. (PI)

311	Name:	Owen Biddle
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1/4/1737
	Death Date:	3/10/1799

	Owen Biddle (4 January 1737–10 March 1799) was a clockmaker, druggist, and merchant, and a member of the Young Junto (elected c. 1766 shortly before it was renamed the American Society). Born in Philadelphia, Biddle was active for many years in the American Society, serving on the committees that designed its seal and negotiated its union with the American Society in 1769. He acted as a curator and conducted scientific experiments; most notably, he carefully observed the 1769 Transit of Venus, publishing his findings in the first volume of the APS Transactions. Biddle was also a manager of the Silk Society and a member of the Union Library Company. His involvement in the fight for American independence began with signing the Non-Importation Agreement of 1765 and continued with his election to Philadelphia’s Revolutionary Committee in 1774. He served as a delegate to draft Pennsylvania’s state constitution in 1776 and served on the State Board of War in 1777. Biddle also worked for the Continental Congress, first by managing its lottery and later by acting as deputy commissary of forage for the army. Once the APS resumed its meetings, he held offices, helped plan the legislative charter in 1780, and gave the annual oration in 1781. When bankruptcy redirected his energies back to the Society of Friends, he spent his remaining years devoted to Quaker education. Biddle’s final endeavor, the creation of the Westtown School, was made possible with funding from APS Member John Dickinson. His brother Clement Biddle was a member of the Young Junto; and his nephews Thomas Biddle, John G. Biddle, and Clement C. Biddle; and brother-in-law James Wilkinson were APS members. (PI)

312	Name:	Nicholas Biddle
	Year Elected:	1813
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	2/27/1844

313	Name:	John G. Biddle
	Year Elected:	1814
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	8/30/1826

314	Name:	Clement C. Biddle
	Year Elected:	1821
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	8/20/1855

315	Name:	Thomas Biddle
	Year Elected:	1829
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	6/3/1857

316	Name:	John B. Biddle
	Year Elected:	1853
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	1/19/1879

317	Name:	John Biddle
	Year Elected:	1863
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1813
	Death Date:	10/19/1884

318	Name:	[John] Craig Biddle
	Year Elected:	1877
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	7/26/10

319	Name:	Cadwalader Biddle
	Year Elected:	1880
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1837
	Death Date:	10/28/06

320	Name:	Alexander Biddle
	Year Elected:	1888
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	5/2/1899

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