Who most deserves to be on American money?
Four faces already hold the paper currency. This list runs a good deal longer than four.
1Benjamin Franklin
Has been on the hundred-dollar note since the first $100 Federal Reserve Notes of 1914.
2George Washington
On the one-dollar bill and the quarter, the most widely circulated face in American history.
3Abraham Lincoln
On both the five-dollar bill and the penny, the only figure on two circulating denominations.
4Harriet Tubman
Escaped slavery and led dozens of others north; long proposed for the twenty-dollar note.
5Martin Luther King Jr.
Led the civil rights movement and has a federal holiday but no banknote.
6Thomas Jefferson
On the two-dollar bill and the nickel, and the author of the Declaration.
7Alexander Hamilton
On the ten-dollar bill as the founder of the Treasury that prints it.
8Susan B. Anthony
Campaigned for women's suffrage and appeared on a short-lived dollar coin.
9Frederick Douglass
Escaped slavery to become the most formidable abolitionist orator and writer in America.
10Franklin D. Roosevelt
On the dime, the president who took the country through the Depression and the war.
11Sacagawea
Guided the Lewis and Clark expedition and appears on the golden dollar coin.
12Rosa Parks
Her refusal to move seats in Montgomery in 1955 set the bus boycott in motion.
13Neil Armstrong
First person to walk on the Moon, and the face of American technical ambition.
14Eleanor Roosevelt
Redefined the role of First Lady and chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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