Who most deserves to be on American money?

Four faces already hold the paper currency. This list runs a good deal longer than four.

1. 1
   Benjamin Franklin

   Has been on the hundred-dollar note since the first $100 Federal Reserve Notes of 1914.
2. 2
   George Washington

   On the one-dollar bill and the quarter, the most widely circulated face in American history.
3. 3
   Abraham Lincoln

   On both the five-dollar bill and the penny, the only figure on two circulating denominations.
4. 4
   Harriet Tubman

   Escaped slavery and led dozens of others north; long proposed for the twenty-dollar note.
5. 5
   Martin Luther King Jr.

   Led the civil rights movement and has a federal holiday but no banknote.
6. 6
   Thomas Jefferson

   On the two-dollar bill and the nickel, and the author of the Declaration.
7. 7
   Alexander Hamilton

   On the ten-dollar bill as the founder of the Treasury that prints it.
8. 8
   Susan B. Anthony

   Campaigned for women's suffrage and appeared on a short-lived dollar coin.
9. 9
   Frederick Douglass

   Escaped slavery to become the most formidable abolitionist orator and writer in America.
10. 10
    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    On the dime, the president who took the country through the Depression and the war.
11. 11
    Sacagawea

    Guided the Lewis and Clark expedition and appears on the golden dollar coin.
12. 12
    Rosa Parks

    Her refusal to move seats in Montgomery in 1955 set the bus boycott in motion.
13. 13
    Neil Armstrong

    First person to walk on the Moon, and the face of American technical ambition.
14. 14
    Eleanor Roosevelt

    Redefined the role of First Lady and chaired the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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