Posted on 04/18/2015 9:20:30 AM PDT by shove_it
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The first woman to serve as both governor and U.S. senator is backing a campaign to put a female face on the $20 bill.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen filed legislation this week that would create a citizens panel to recommend an appropriate choice to the treasury secretary. She is hoping to build on the work of Women on 20s, a national campaign pushing for new $20 bills by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote.
"I think there are a lot of opportunities that we sometimes don't think about to point out the significant contributions women have made in U.S. history," Shaheen said. "And this is one of those opportunities."
The current portrait of former President Andrew Jackson has stared out from the face of the $20 since 1928. But paper currency is redesigned every seven to 10 years to thwart counterfeiters, and the latest $20 notes entered circulation in 2003. Changes can be ordered by the treasury secretary or president without an act of Congress, and Shaheen's bill wouldn't compel either to do so. Still, she and campaign supporters hope it will boost public support for redesigning the currency and spur broader conversation about the achievements of American women...
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Iconic Indian images used to be a standard on American money.
Plus it would be an appropriate replacement for that genocidal maniac Andrew Jackson.
Our money used to be more interesting:
Otherwise, they should put Reagan on the $20 and put Obama on the $1,000,000,000.000.
If it cannot be Lady Liberty and for whatever reason has to be a real person, I nominate Nancy Hart or Margaret Cochran Corbin.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen filed legislation this week that would create a citizens panel to recommend an appropriate choice to the treasury secretary.Bread and circuses.
How about Maggie Thatcher?
I nominate Olive Oyl (Popeye’s girlfriend). If that doesn’t work for these LIBiots, how about a star of “My 600 pound life”?
[The most important issue of our time.]
Have you tried one of the steaks on the Titanic? They come with asparagus. Don’t worry about that iceberg, we’ll just tax it out of existence.
Nailed it. The country is bleeding jobs, facing impossible debt, printing money like toilet paper and shifting to bizarre cultural values.
And this is the issue of the month.
oh let us HOPE that the little man with the Pen and The Phone....doesnt Insist...that his WIFE be placed on ANY of our currency!!!
There has been two women on the one dollar coins. Both coins were rejected by the public.
Woops, THREE women if you count LADY LIBERTY!
Yes! Those old Silver Certificates were very beautifully done. Correction: 0bama belongs on the $10,000,000,000 bill.
Betty Zane
As a teenage girl she ran through enemy fire during the siege of Fort Henry to bring back an apron full of gunpowder.
George Washington on the $1 note
Thomas Jefferson on the $2 note
Abraham Lincoln on the $5 note
Alexander Hamilton on the $10 note
Andrew Jackson on the $20 note
Ulysses Grant on the $50 note
Benjamin Franklin on the $100 note.
John Marshall on the $500 note
Alexander Hamilton or Grover Cleveland on the $1,000 note
James Madison on the $5,000 note
Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury (1861-1864) on the $10,000
Woodrow Wilson on the $100,000 note
The $100,000 Gold Certificate was used only for official transactions between Federal Reserve Banks and was not circulated among the general public. This note cannot be legally held by currency note collectors.
United States currency denominations above $100 are not available from the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve System, or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. On July 14, 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System announced that currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued immediately due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945.
http://moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/smalldenominations.html http://moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/largedenominations.html
How about Margaret Sanger,pioneer of maternal and fetal health (and racial eugenics)?
Abigail Adams
(Actually, that is "Agriculture and Forestry" from the 1896 Educational Series.)
We’ve had women on money before...
Abigail Adams? Mother Bickerdyke?
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