The U.S. Treasury Department announced earlier this workweek that it will update the looking at of the $ 20 bill , replacing the face of Andrew Jackson with that ofHarriet Tubman . The news that the abolitionist , suffragist and all - around American champion would exchange a president get a mint of attending , and societal media was a hotbed of opinion . And our Facebook lover sure had a lot of opinionswhen we share the word :
So to set the platter straight — no , you do n’t have to be a president to be on the typeface of United States money . powerful now if you take a flavour at either a $ 10 or a $ 100 bill , you ’ll see the side ofAlexander HamiltonandBenjamin Franklin . Neither ever do as United States President .
Hamilton was the country ’s first Secretary of the Treasury , helped found the Federalist party and became the case of a hit 2015 Broadway melodic . Franklin , on the other hand , was a multitalented inventor , statesman , newspaper publisher editor in chief and publisher , city councilman , ambassador to France , and even the governor or Pennsylvania for three year — but was never president .
And if you ’re lucky enough to have seen a circa-1861 $ 10,000 poster with your own optic — more than 300 are believe to still be in circulation — you may wonder who this guy call Salmon P. Chase is . He was many thing , including an Ohio senator and regulator , a chief justness of the Supreme Court , and a Treasury secretary . But he was never chair . In fact , it was during his time as Secretary of the Treasury in 1861 that the government issue the immense bill — and Chase made the sheer move of putting his own face on it .
Anyone else ? Oh , yes . In 1886 a portrait of Martha Washington , the country ’s first First Lady , appeared on a government note worth one silver dollar . In the 1800s and former 1900s , the U.S. put Albert Gallatin ( a solon and embassador ) , Charles Sumner ( a politician and orator ) , John Marshall ( a Supreme Court honcho justice ) , and William Sherman and Joseph Mansfield ( Civil War generals ) on $ 500 bank greenback . interlingual rendition of the $ 1,000 distinction portrayed politician William Marcy and military man George Meade , among others .
And for those resistant to change , acknowledge that Jackson will still be on the $ 20 , just moved to the back . Anyway , Jackson was n’t always on the $ 20 to start out with . When the Federal Reserve introduced a fresh version of national currency in 1914 , Jackson was on the $ 10 , former President Grover Cleveland ( who ’d only been dead for six eld ) was on the $ 20 , and Hamilton was on the $ 1,000 . Things switched around in 1928 comply another redesign .
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