Exhibit 4.1

SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

BB&T CORPORATION

to

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

as Trustee

Dated as of June 7, 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Page ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS.......................................................2 SECTION 1.1 Definitions of Terms....................................2 ARTICLE 2 GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE DEBENTURES....................4 SECTION 2.1 Designation and Principal Amount........................4 SECTION 2.2 Maturity................................................4 SECTION 2.3 Form and Payment........................................4 SECTION 2.4 Global Form.............................................5 SECTION 2.5 Interest................................................6 ARTICLE 3 PREPAYMENT OF THE DEBENTURES......................................7 SECTION 3.1 Special Event Prepayment................................7 SECTION 3.2 Optional Prepayment by Corporation......................7 SECTION 3.3 Deposit of Special Event Prepayment Price or Optional Repayment Price........................................................7 SECTION 3.4 No Sinking Fund.........................................7 ARTICLE 4 EXTENSION OF INTEREST PAYMENT PERIOD..............................8 SECTION 4.1 Extension of Interest Payment Period....................8 SECTION 4.2 Notice of Extension.....................................8 SECTION 4.3 Limitation of Transactions..............................9 ARTICLE 5 EXPENSES..........................................................9 ARTICLE 6 FORM OF DEBENTURE.................................................9 ARTICLE 7 ORIGINAL ISSUE OF DEBENTURES......................................9 ARTICLE 8 MISCELLANEOUS....................................................10 SECTION 8.1 Ratification of Indenture..............................10 SECTION 8.2 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals...................10 SECTION 8.3 Governing Law..........................................10 SECTION 8.4 Severability...........................................10 SECTION 8.5 Counterparts...........................................10 

SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

          THIS SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of June 7, 2006 (this “Second Supplemental Indenture”), between BB&T CORPORATION, a North Carolina corporation (the “Corporation”), and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), under the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of August 18, 2005, between the Corporation and the Trustee (the “Indenture”).

          WHEREAS, the Corporation desires to establish, under the terms of the Indenture, a series of its securities to be known as its 6.75% Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2036 (the “Debentures”), the form and substance of such Debentures and the terms, provisions and conditions thereof to be set forth as provided in the Indenture and this Second Supplemental Indenture; and

          WHEREAS, under the terms of an Underwriting Agreement, dated as of May 31, 2006 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Corporation, BB&T Capital Trust II (the “Trust”) and the Underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), the Trust has agreed to sell to the Underwriters $600,000,000 aggregate liquidation amount of its 6.75% Cumulative Capital Securities (the “Capital Securities”); and

          WHEREAS, under the terms of Section 2.5 of the Trust Agreement (as defined herein), the Corporation has committed to purchase all of the Trust’s 6.75% Cumulative Common Securities (the “Common Securities”) with an aggregate liquidation amount of $10,000; and

          WHEREAS, the Trust proposes to invest the gross proceeds from such offering of Capital Securities, together with the gross proceeds from the issuance and sale by the Trust of the Common Securities, in the Debentures, as a result of which the Trust will purchase initially $600,010,000 aggregate principal amount of the Debentures; and

          WHEREAS, the Corporation has requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this Second Supplemental Indenture; and

          WHEREAS, all requirements necessary to make this Second Supplemental Indenture a valid instrument in accordance with its terms and to make the Debentures, when executed by the Corporation and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, the valid obligations of the Corporation, have been performed, and the execution and delivery of this Second Supplemental Indenture have been duly authorized in all respects.

          NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase and acceptance of the Debentures by the Holders thereof, and for the purpose of setting forth, as provided in the Indenture, the form and substance of the Debentures and the terms, provisions and conditions thereof, the Corporation covenants and agrees with the Trustee as follows:

ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS

SECTION 1.1    Definitions of Terms

          Unless the context otherwise requires:

          (a)      a term defined in the Indenture has the same meaning when used in this Second Supplemental Indenture unless otherwise provided herein;

          (b)       a term defined anywhere in this Second Supplemental Indenture has the same meaning throughout;

          (c)       the singular includes the plural and vice versa;

          (d)       a reference to a Section or Article is to a Section or Article of this Second Supplemental Indenture unless otherwise provided herein;

          (e)       headings are for convenience of reference only and do not affect interpretation;

          (f)       the following terms have the meanings given to them in the Trust Agreement: (i) Business Day; (ii) Clearing Agency; (iii) Capital Security Certificate; (iv) Property Trustee; and (v) Administrative Trustees;

          (g)       the following terms have the meanings given to them in this Section 1.1:

          “Calculation Agent” means any entity or any successor entity that is a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in New York City (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) appointed by the Corporation; provided, however, that if the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Corporation shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer.

          “Comparable Treasury Issue” means with respect to any redemption date, the U.S. Treasury security selected by the Calculation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the time period from the redemption date to June 7, 2036 that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to this time period.

          “Comparable Treasury Price” means (a) the average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for the applicable redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (b) if the Calculation Agent obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

          “Coupon Rate” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.5.

          “Dissolution Election” means the election, at any time, by the Holders of the Common Securities given in writing to the Property Trustee, to dissolve the Trust and to distribute the Debentures to holders of the Capital Securities in exchange for the Capital Securities (which election is optional and wholly within the discretion of the Holders of the Common Securities, subject to the prior approval of the Federal Reserve, if required).

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          “Extension Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.1.

          “Holder” means any person in whose name the Debentures are registered in the Securities Register.

          “Interest Payment Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.5.

          “Maturity Date” means the date on which the Debentures mature and on which the principal shall be due and payable together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, including Additional Interest, if any.

          “Non-Book-Entry Capital Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.4(a)(ii).

          “Optional Prepayment Price” shall mean with respect to the Debentures, a prepayment price equal to the greater of (a) 100% of the principal amount of the Debentures to be prepaid, or (b) as determined by the Calculation Agent, the present value of scheduled payments of principal and interest from the date of prepayment to June 7, 2036, on the Debentures being prepaid, discounted to the date of prepayment on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus a spread of 0.25% and, in the case of (a) or (b), any accrued and unpaid interest thereon up (including Additional Interest, if any) to but excluding the date of such prepayment.

          “Reference Treasury Dealer” means (1) the Calculation Agent and (2) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Property Trustee after consultation with the Corporation.

          “Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Calculation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount, quoted in writing to the Calculation Agent by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such redemption date.

          “Special Event” means a Tax Event, Capital Treatment Event or an Investment Company Event.

          “Special Event Prepayment” means a prepayment of the Debentures, in whole but not in part, pursuant to the occurrence of a Special Event.

          “Special Event Prepayment Price” shall mean with respect to the Debentures, a prepayment price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, together with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date of such Special Event Prepayment.

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          “Treasury Rate” means (1) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the week immediately prior to the date of calculation, appearing in the most recently published statistical release designated “H.15(519)” or any successor publication which is published weekly by the Federal Reserve and which establishes the yield on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the time period from the redemption date to June 7, 2036, or if no maturity is within three months before or after this time period, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to this time period will be determined and the Treasury Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month, or (2) if the release or any successor release is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the annual rate equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed as a percentage of its principal amount, equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for the redemption date.

          “Trust Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of BB&T Capital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust, dated as of June 7, 2006.

ARTICLE 2
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE DEBENTURES

SECTION 2.1      Designation and Principal Amount.

          There is hereby authorized and established under the terms of the Indenture a series of the Corporation’s securities designated the “6.75% Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2036” limited in aggregate principal amount to no more than $600,010,000, which amount shall be as set forth in one or more written orders of the Corporation for the authentication and delivery of the Debentures pursuant to Section 3.3 of the Indenture.

SECTION 2.2     Maturity.

          The Maturity Date for the Debentures is June 7, 2036.

SECTION 2.3      Form and Payment.

          Except as provided in Section 2.4, the Debentures shall be issued in fully registered certificated form without interest coupons. The transfer of Debentures issued in certificated form will be registrable and such Debentures will be exchangeable for other junior subordinated debentures of the same issue and series of any authorized denomination, of a like principal amount, of the same original issue date and stated maturity and bearing the same interest rate at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. Principal and interest on such Debentures will be payable at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or at the office of any Paying Agent designated by the Corporation from time to time; provided, however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Corporation by check mailed to the Holder at such address or by transfer to an account maintained by the Holder, as specified in the Securities Register.

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SECTION 2.4      Global Form.

          (a)       In connection with a Dissolution Election,

          (b)      A Global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part, only to another nominee of the Depositary, or to a successor Depositary selected or approved by the Corporation or to a nominee of such successor Depositary.

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          (c)      If at any time the Depositary notifies the Corporation that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary or if at any time the Depositary shall no longer be registered or in good standing under the Exchange Act or other applicable statute or regulation, and a successor Depositary for such series is not appointed by the Corporation within 90 days after the Corporation receives such notice or becomes aware of such condition, as the case may be, the Corporation will execute, and, subject to Article III of the Indenture, the Trustee, upon written notice from the Corporation, will authenticate and make available for delivery the Debentures in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security. In addition, the Corporation may at any time determine that the Debentures shall no longer be represented by a Global Security. In such event the Corporation will execute, and subject to Article III of the Indenture, the Trustee will authenticate and deliver the Debentures in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security. Upon the exchange of the Global Security for such Debentures in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations, the Global Security shall be canceled by the Trustee. Such Debentures in definitive registered form issued in exchange for the Global Security shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Debentures to the Depositary for delivery to the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.

SECTION 2.5      Interest.

          (a)      Each Debenture will bear interest at the rate of 6.75% per annum (the “Coupon Rate”) from June 7, 2006 until the principal thereof becomes due and payable, on any principal and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue installment of interest, compounded semi-annually, payable (subject to the provisions of Article 4) semi-annually in arrears on June 7 and December 7 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing on December 7, 2006, to the Person in whose name such Debenture or any predecessor Debenture is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment.

          (b)      The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Except as provided in the following sentence, the amount of interest payable for any period less than a full interest period will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a partial month in such period. In the event that any date on which interest is payable on the Debentures is not a Business Day, then payment of interest payable on such date need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and after such date the amount was payable until such next succeeding Business Day), except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made on the date such payment was originally payable.

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          (c)      So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Trust is the Holder of the Debentures, if a Tax Event has occurred and is continuing in respect of the Trust, then the Corporation shall pay to the Trust (and its permitted successors or assigns under the Trust Agreement) for so long as the Trust (or its permitted successor or assignee) is the registered holder of the Debentures, Additional Sums pursuant to Section 10.6 of the Indenture.

ARTICLE 3
PREPAYMENT OF THE DEBENTURES

SECTION 3.1      Special Event Prepayment.

          Subject to Article XI of the Indenture and any required approval of the Federal Reserve, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Special Event in respect of the Trust, the Corporation may, at its option, at any time within 90 days of the occurrence and during the continuation of such Special Event, prepay the Debentures, in whole but not in part, at the Special Event Prepayment Price.

SECTION 3.2      Optional Prepayment by Corporation.

          Subject to the provisions of Article XI of the Indenture, the Corporation shall have the right to prepay the Debentures, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a prepayment price equal to the Optional Prepayment Price.

          If the Debentures are only partially prepaid pursuant to this Section 3.2, the particular Debentures to be prepaid shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Prepayment Date by the Trustee by lot or by such other method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for prepayment of a portion of the principal amount of any Debenture, provided that the portion of the principal amount that has not been prepaid in respect of any Debenture that shall be in the amount of $1,000 or any integral multiples thereof.

          Notice of prepayment under this Section 3.2 shall be given in accordance with Section 11.4 of the Indenture.

SECTION 3.3      Deposit of Special Event Prepayment Price or Optional Repayment Price.

          Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the prepayment date specified in the notice of prepayment given as provided in Section 11.4 of the Indenture, the Corporation will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or if the Corporation is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Corporation will segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3 of the Indenture) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Special Event Prepayment Price or Optional Prepayment Price, as applicable, of, and any accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on, all the Debentures (or portions thereof) that are to be prepaid on that date.

SECTION 3.4      No Sinking Fund.

          The Debentures are not entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund.

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ARTICLE 4
EXTENSION OF INTEREST PAYMENT PERIOD

SECTION 4.1      Extension of Interest Payment Period.

          So long as no Acceleration Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Corporation shall have the right, at any time and from time to time during the term of the Debentures, to defer payments of interest by extending the interest payment period of such Debentures for a period not exceeding 10 consecutive semi-annual periods (the “Extension Period”), during which Extension Period no interest shall be due and payable; provided the Corporation shall have the right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date and provided, further, that no Extension Period may extend beyond the Maturity of the principal of the Debentures or the Redemption Date applicable to the Debentures, and no such Extension Period (except with respect to a Redemption Date) may end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date. At the end of the Extension Period, the Corporation shall pay all interest accrued and unpaid on the Debentures (including any Additional Interest, if any) that shall be payable to the Holders of the Debentures.

          Prior to the termination of any Extension Period, the Corporation may further defer the payment of interest, provided that no Acceleration Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and provided, further, that no Extension Period shall exceed 10 consecutive semi-annual interest payment periods, extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of the Debentures or Redemption Date applicable to the Debentures, or (except with respect to a Redemption Date) end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date. Upon the termination of any such Extension Period and upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional Interest then due on any Interest Payment Date, the Corporation may elect to begin a new Extension Period, subject to the above conditions. No interest or Additional Interest shall be due and payable during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof, but each installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and payable during such Extension Period shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) at the Coupon Rate, compounded semi-annually and calculated as set forth in Section 2.5, from the dates on which amounts would otherwise have been due and payable until paid or made available for payment.

SECTION 4.2      Notice of Extension.

                    (a)      The Corporation shall give the Holders of the Debentures and the Trustee notice of its election to begin any such Extension Period at least one Business Day and in no case more than 15 Business Days prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date on which interest on the Debentures would be payable but for such deferral.

                    (b)      The semi-annual period in which any notice is given pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Section 4.2 shall be counted as one of the 10 semi-annual periods permitted in computing the maximum length of an Extension Period permitted under Section 4.1.

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SECTION 4.3      Limitation of Transactions.

          If the Corporation shall exercise its right to defer payment of interest as provided in Section 4.1 and such Extension Period is continuing, the Corporation shall not (a) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any Debt of the Corporation that ranks pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Debentures, or (b) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Corporation’s capital stock (other than (1) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Corporation in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Corporation (or securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable Extension Period, (2) as a result of an exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Corporation’s capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary of the Corporation) for any class or series of the Corporation’s capital stock or of any class or series of the Corporation’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Corporation’s capital stock, (3) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Corporation’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (4) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any Rights Plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (5) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to such stock).

ARTICLE 5
EXPENSES

          In connection with the offering, sale and issuance of the Debentures to the Trust and in connection with the sale of the Trust Securities by the Trust, the Corporation shall pay certain amounts to the Trust pursuant to the Indenture and the Trust Agreement.

ARTICLE 6
FORM OF DEBENTURE

          The Debentures and the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication to be endorsed thereon are to be substantially in the forms set forth on Exhibit A hereto.

ARTICLE 7
ORIGINAL ISSUE OF DEBENTURES

          Debentures in the aggregate principal amount of $600,010,000 may, upon execution of this Second Supplemental Indenture, be executed by the Corporation and delivered to the Trustee for authentication in accordance with Section 3.3. of the Indenture.

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ARTICLE 8
MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.1      Ratification of Indenture.

          The Indenture, as supplemented by this Second Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Second Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed part of the Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

SECTION 8.2      Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals.

          The recitals herein contained are made by the Corporation and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or sufficiency of this Second Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 8.3      Governing Law.

          This Second Supplemental Indenture and each Debenture shall be deemed to be a contract made under the internal laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of said State.

SECTION 8.4      Severability.

          In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Second Supplemental Indenture or in the Debentures shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Second Supplemental Indenture or of the Debentures, but this Second Supplemental Indenture and the Debentures shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein.

SECTION 8.5      Counterparts.

          This Second Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Second Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed by their authorized respective officers as of the day and year first above written.

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STATE OF North Carolina )
                                           ) ss.:
COUNTY OF Forsyth       )

          On June 7, 2006 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the State of NC, personally appeared M. Patricia Oliver, personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he/she executed the same in his/her authorized capacity, and that the foregoing instrument is the free act and deed of the entity upon behalf of which such person acted.

           WITNESS my hand and official seal.

           SIGNATURE: /s/ Nancy K. Johnson    (This area for official notarial seal)
                                  Name: Nancy K. Johnson
                                  Address:

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
                                                   ) ss.:
COUNTY OF SUFFOLK         )

          On June 5, 2006 before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, personally appeared Rachel M. Sylvia, Officer, personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he/she executed the same in his/her authorized capacity, and that the foregoing instrument is the free act and deed of the entity upon behalf of which such person acted.

          WITNESS my hand and official seal.

           SIGNATURE: /s/ David W. Doucette    (This area for official notarial seal)
                                  Name: David W. Doucette
                                  Address:

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Junior Subordinated Debenture.

Face of Debenture

This Security is not a deposit or other obligation of a depository institution and is not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Bank Insurance Fund or any other governmental agency.

BB&T CORPORATION
6.75% Junior Subordinated Debentures Due June 7, 2036

          BB&T CORPORATION, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of North Carolina (hereinafter called the “Corporation”, which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to U.S. Bank National Association, as property trustee of BB&T Capital Trust II, or registered assigns, the principal sum of SIX HUNDRED MILLION AND TEN THOUSAND Dollars ($610,010,000) on June 7, 2036, or such other principal amount represented hereby as may be set forth in the records of the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to in accordance with the Indenture. The Corporation further promises to pay interest on said principal sum from June 7, 2006 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually (subject to deferral as set forth herein) in arrears on June 7 and December 7 of each year, commencing December 7, 2006, at the rate of 6.75% per annum, together with Additional Sums, if any, as provided in Section 10.6 of the Indenture until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for or made available for payment; provided that any overdue principal, premium or Additional Sums and any overdue installment of interest shall bear Additional Interest at the rate of 6.75% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), compounded semi-annually, from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall be payable on demand. The amount of interest payable for any period less than a full interest period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the actual days elapsed in a partial month in such period. The amount of interest payable for any full interest period shall be computed by dividing the applicable rate per annum by two. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment which shall be the date that is 15 days next preceding the Interest Payment Date. If an Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, interest on this Security shall be payable on the next day that is a Business Day, with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date, and without any interest or other payment with respect to the delay. “Business Day” as used hereinabove is a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or any other day on which banking institutions in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Wilmington, Delaware or New York, New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 15 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.

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          So long as no Acceleration Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Corporation shall have the right, at any time during the term of this Security, from time to time to defer the payment of interest on this Security for up to 10 consecutive semi-annual interest payment periods with respect to each deferral period (each an “Extension Period”), during which Extension Periods the Corporation shall have the right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date, and at the end of which the Corporation shall pay all interest then accrued and unpaid including any Additional Interest, as provided below; provided, however, that no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of this Security or Redemption Date applicable to this Security, and no such Extension Period may end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date; and provided, further, however, that during any such Extension Period, the Corporation shall not (i) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any Debt that ranks pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to this Security, or (ii) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Corporation’s capital stock (other than (a) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Corporation in connection with any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or in connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Corporation (or securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable Extension Period, (b) as a result of an exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Corporation’s capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary of the Corporation) for any class or series of the Corporation’s capital stock or of any class or series of the Corporation’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Corporation’s capital stock, (c) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Corporation’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (d) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any Rights Plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, or (e) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to such stock). Prior to the termination of any such Extension Period, the Corporation may further defer the payment of interest, provided that no Extension Period shall exceed 10 consecutive semi-annual interest payment periods, extend beyond the Stated Maturity of the principal of this Security or Redemption Date applicable to this Security, or (except with respect to a Redemption Date) end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date. Upon the termination of any such Extension Period and upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional Interest then due on any Interest Payment Date, the Corporation may elect to begin a new Extension Period, subject to the above conditions. No interest shall be due and payable during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof, but each installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and payable during such Extension shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of 6.75% per annum, compounded semi-annually and calculated as set forth in the first paragraph of this section, from the dates on which amounts would otherwise have been due and payable until paid or made available for payment. The Corporation shall give the Holder of this Security and the Trustee notice of its election to begin any Extension Period no less than one and in no case more than 15 Business Days prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date on which interest on this Security would be payable but for such deferral.

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          Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Corporation maintained for that purpose in the City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Corporation payment of interest may be made (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities Register, or (ii) by wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place and to such account as may be designated by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Securities Register.

          The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided, and (c) appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof, waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Indebtedness, whether now outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said provisions.

          Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

          Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

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          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

Attest:

___________________________________
Assistant Secretary

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Securities of the series
designated therein referred to in the within
mentioned Indenture.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

By:__________________________________
     Name:
     Title

Dated: June 7, 2006

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Reverse of Debenture

BB&T Corporation
6.75% Junior Subordinated Debentures Due June 7, 2036

          This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Corporation (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of August 18, 2005, as supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 7, 2006 (herein together called the “Indenture”), between the Corporation and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Corporation, the Trustee, the holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in aggregate principal amount to $600,010,000.

          All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless otherwise defined in this Security.

          Subject to any required approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Tax Event, an Investment Company Event or a Capital Treatment Event in respect of the Issuer Trust, the Corporation may, at its option, at any time within 90 days of the occurrence and during the continuation of such Tax Event, Investment Company Event or Capital Treatment Event, as the case may be, redeem this Security, in whole but not in part, subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of the Indenture, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount hereof, together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date of redemption.

          At any time, the Corporation will have the right to redeem some or all of this Security at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of: (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Junior Subordinated Debentures being redeemed (plus Additional Interest); or (ii) the present value of scheduled payments of principal and interest from the prepayment date to June 7, 2036, on the Junior Subordinated Debentures being prepaid, discounted to the prepayment date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at a discount rate equal to the sum of (A) the Treasury Rate plus (B) 0.25%, as determined by a Calculation Agent appointed by the Corporation in accordance with the Indenture prior to exercising its right to redeem the Junior Subordinated Debentures.

          The Securities of this series are not subject to repayment at the option of the Holder hereof. The Securities of this series will not be entitled to any sinking fund.

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          The Indenture contains provisions for satisfaction and discharge of the entire indebtedness of this Security upon compliance by the Corporation with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.

          The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Corporation and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture or indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations of the Corporation and of the Holders of the Securities, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series to be affected by such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Corporation with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

          If an Acceleration Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, with respect to the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series shall become or may be declared due and payable to the extent, in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

          No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Corporation, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, including any Additional Interest, on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

          As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Securities Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Corporation maintained under Section 10.2 of the Indenture for such purpose, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Corporation and the Securities Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series, of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

          The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

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          No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Corporation may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

          Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Corporation, the Trustee and any agent of the Corporation or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Corporation, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

          The Corporation and, by its acceptance of this Security or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, this Security agree that for United States Federal, state and local tax purposes it is intended that this Security constitute indebtedness.

          THE INDENTURE AND THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

          This is one of the Securities referred to in the mentioned Indenture.

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee

By:__________________________________
     Name:
     Title

Dated: June 7, 2006

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