Female on the 10 Dollar Bill

[HerbS]

ReignetteC,Yes all 3 are great choices!

[LincolnMan]

Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Another great one.

[RogerD]

1. Sojourner Truth 2. Betsy Ross 3. Pocahontas

Sojourner Truth has my vote. But I would love to see Dorothea Dix honored, too, because she cared about the suffering of the truly helpless.

[PaigeBooth]

I am an Eleanor Roosevelt fan, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that she will be the new face on the ten dollar bill. I would absolutely love to see Eleanor Roosevelt on the ten dollar bill because she symbolizes so many important things; more than just First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt revolutionized the role of First Lady beyond its previous responsibilities. She was a humanitarian and was extremely active with the American Red Cross, she was a supporter of Women's Rights, Civil Rights, and, of course, FDR considered Eleanor his "eyes and ears" throughout his long service as president.

I checked online, and right now it seems like Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman are the two most popular choices.

[HerbS]

I have a 103yr young friend who met E.Roosevelt at the White House! She was a WW-2 pilot,and she still gets around for her young age!

[Wild Bill]

How about Victoria Clafflin Woodhull, the first woman to run for president

[BettyO]

Didn't she also have an affair with Henry Ward Beecher? She and her sister were also big on the spiritualism scene....


Roger D - LOVE your Seward cartoon avatar!

[Wild Bill]

She revealed the affair of H W Beecher with the hot wife of his ministerial assistant Theo Tilden. She was not against the affaire--she just thought that Beecher, them head of one of the first mega churches in Brooklyn, ought to make hi faults public

Congrats, it took only an hour and a half for Betty to see this. I thought it might go longer.

Vicki was arrested for trying to vote in the 1876 Presidential Election and spent election night in jail, with Ben Butler sitting on a stool outside the cell commiserating with her. Birds of a feather? In addition to being the consummate con-atist of her day, she ran on the Free Love ticket. In her time she made Hillary look like a piker. I mean if we can put a self-confessed libertine like Ben Franklin on the $20. . . .

[Thomas Thorne]

I would keep Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill and would replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 with Rosa Parks.

Tom

[Wild Bill]

Ooops! Franklin is on the $100.

No surprise to you, Tom, but Jackson is my favorite president. He is condemned for being a duelist, a slaveholder, and driving the Civilized Tribes from the South. Most of his duels concerned his having to marry his wife twice as his wife thought her original husband had gotten a divorce. The story is that an old slave of Jackson when asked upon Jackson's death, if the general had gone to heaven. The slave said heave. The questioner scoffed, whereupon the old slave said, "If General Jackson wanted to go to heaven, you may be sure he is there. On Indian Removal I suggest that you read Francis Paul Prucha, “Andrew Jackson’s Indian Policy: A Reassessment,” Journal of American History 56 (1969): 527–39

[LincolnToddFan]

I have a 103yr young friend who met E.Roosevelt at the White House! She was a WW-2 pilot,and she still gets around for her young age!

Oh wow, the stories that woman must be able to tell. I'd love to meet her!

[HerbS]

She is a fantastic person and her husband is too! She has some very interesting stories to share! Please feel free to come to Rochester,NY and I will introduce you to her!

[Thomas Thorne]

Ooops! Franklin is on the $100.

No surprise to you, Tom, but Jackson is my favorite president. He is condemned for being a duelist, a slaveholder, and driving the Civilized Tribes from the South. Most of his duels concerned his having to marry his wife twice as his wife thought her original husband had gotten a divorce. The story is that an old slave of Jackson when asked upon Jackson's death, if the general had gone to heaven. The slave said heave. The questioner scoffed, whereupon the old slave said, "If General Jackson wanted to go to heaven, you may be sure he is there. On Indian Removal I suggest that you read Francis Paul Prucha, “Andrew Jackson’s Indian Policy: A Reassessment,” Journal of American History 56 (1969): 527–39

Thank Bill for the reading advice

One of the first adult biographies I read was Marquis James' adulatory book on Andrew Jackson. James was a wonderful story teller who could hook anyone on history. My favorite Jackson story from him -I hope it is true-is about the only postmaster Jackson inherited from JQ Adams whom he refused to fire. When asked why, Old Hickory burst out,"By the Eternal, that old man{the postmaster} has a British ball in his breast!"

James won the Pulitzer for his Jackson book as did Arthur Schlesinger Jr in 1945 for what may have been the silliest book I had to read in college, "The Age of Jackson." Hopelessly addicted to his fanciful notion of rigid alternation of conservative and liberal eras and shoehorning his villains as conservatives and his heroes as liberals,Schlesinger converted Jackson into a frontier Franklin Roosevelt.

If Laurie Verge wants to see the most grotesque example of "presentism" 1945 edition, she should read this book.

Schlesinger went on to become the official Kennedy court historian whose biographies of John and Robert Kennedy did not mention their deaths.
Tom

[Eva Elisabeth]

Combining civil rights activism and (performing) arts:
   
(...and wouldn't she make the banknote attractive beyond the pecuniary value?)

[L Verge]

A very talented lady, Josephine Baker, but her French citizenship might exclude her from the running. She became an American expatriate before WWII, I believe.