CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A campaign to put a female face on the $20 bill is getting a boost from the first woman to serve as both governor and U.S. senator.
New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has filed legislation to create a citizens panel to recommend an appropriate candidate. She hopes 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.
President Andrew Jackson has stared out from the $20 since 1928, but paper currency is redesigned every seven to 10 years to thwart counterfeiters. The treasury secretary or president can order changes without an act of Congress.
Possible new faces include leading abolitionist Harriet Tubman and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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How about someone from the arts, humanities or sciences for a change. Emily Dickinson or Maya Angelou on the twenty, Jonas Salk or George Washington Carver on the ten. The Brits get Darwin, Newton, Florence Nightingale, etc. on their notes in addition to the Queen.
Ella Fitzgerald.
Any would be fine, but the late Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, would be the best for the great irony of it. Jackson deserves to be replaced by a descendant of those he forced to walk the Trail of Tears.
Pre-euro French banknotes also featured great achievers in the arts, sciences, all that, including Marie Curie. Of course once you begin this discussion God knows some wingnuts will start up about Reagan.
How about putting a woman on the Amero??