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posted by janrinok on Saturday June 20 2015, @05:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the banknotes-for-discerning-gentlemen dept.

The US Treasury Department says a redesigned $10 note will feature a woman, but who she will be has not been decided. The new note will debut in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the US Constitution's 19th amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The treasury will seek the public's input in the selection, looking for a "champion for our inclusive democracy".

The woman who the Treasury Department ultimately selects will replace Alexander Hamilton, a key figure in the American Revolution and the first secretary of the US Treasury. Hamilton began appearing on the $10 note in 1929. He along with diplomat and inventor Ben Franklin are the only non-presidents featured on current US notes.

Women have been featured on US money before, but the notes and coins were not widely used. Most recently women's rights activist Susan B Anthony and Native American Sacagawea appeared on dollar coins, but both coins quickly went out circulation.

Who should it be?

Additional coverage: NYtimes.com


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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday June 20 2015, @06:08AM

    by mendax (2840) on Saturday June 20 2015, @06:08AM (#198556)

    There are many women I can think of who would deserve to be on American money: Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abigail Adams, Dorothea Dix, Clara Barton. But the one I think I'd choose is Eleanor Roosevelt. Aside from being within the living memory of many Americans, she was perhaps the most influential wives of U.S. Presidents, with perhaps the notable exception of Abigail Adams.

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday June 20 2015, @07:23AM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday June 20 2015, @07:23AM (#198569) Journal

    Of those, Eleanor is the most well known by people still alive, but I suspect she is too recent.

    So a reach back into history would seem to be in order. And therein lies the problem.
    From that era, you really only have Abigail Adams. And even she is not well known.
    (She has already been on a ten dollar US money (a 2007 coin), a less than flattering rendition).

    Like the rest you named, there is no one woman that is universally recognized, so we may end up with Elanor by default.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @01:23PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2015, @01:23PM (#198655)

      Oprah Winfrey

      • (Score: 2) by mendax on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:30AM

        by mendax (2840) on Sunday June 21 2015, @05:30AM (#198955)

        The person on paper money has to be dead. You going to kill her for the rest of us?

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