Who is your favorite person with his portrait on US paper money?

Salmon P. Chase - he's on the $10,000 bill. You can find a biography here.

Since it's paper money, I have to go with the $2 bill. Jefferson rules. :P
The picture of him on the bill isn't that great, so if it were by portrait preference I'd have to go with the $10 - that's a much better picture, and Hamilton's cool too.

I started this thread and I knew you'd say that. I also put in a poll and it didnt' work. I was going to try again and so I deleted everything I said, I thought the forum would disappear. It didn't. I might try and put up the poll again.

I started this thread and I knew you'd say that.

Even the part about Hamilton? :D
A poll would be cool, though.

Of course Hamiliton. I think the first thing I ever talked about with you was Hamilton's grave in Trinity Church Cemetary.

Then you get major points. :)

hooray lincoln & truman!

The thing that made me think of starting this was that Isaac Newton is (or was, I don't know if he still is) on a British bill. I always thought that was so cool. The closest we have here is Ben Franklin. Franklin is on it because he was a founding father, not a scientist. Of course Newton was the Master of the Mint, so perhaps we would have put him on a bill if he were American.

My favorites are Lincoln, Franklin, and TJ.

OK, Now I'm going to try to make the poll again

TJ invented the dumbwaiter. And something else....the swivel chair? Again, he's just that cool.

Yes he was brilliant. He also said one of my favorite quotes. He was dead wrong about it but his skeptism is to be admired. The origin of meteorites was hotly debated in his time. Then a professor in the northern US saw where a meteor hit the ground and found the meteorite thus estabilishing meteorites had an extraterrestrial origin. TJ's reaction was, "I'd sooner believe that a Yankee Professor would lie than that stones fall from the sky."

Not as popular as his other inventions, the dumbchair and the swivel waiter.

No that was the swivel waitress. She was developed for Hooters.

she had developed hooters?

"peter, i'm holding hooters!"

"..your wife's hot."

I love Benjamin Franklin. My friend Rob and I have frequent conversations about the greatness of Benjamin Franklin. We went to brew a beer and name it after him. Seriously, why does Sam Adams have one and Ben Franklin doesn't? A Franklin beer would make a lot more sense.

There is a good reason Sam Adams has a beer named after him. He was a brewer! Yes one of the founding fathers made beer for a living.

Yeah, but Benjamin Franklin could probably drink him under the table!

But I think Franklin was more of wine than a beer guy.

Though Ben Franklin was pretty jolly and smart, good god, we need some NEW faces on our coins! Harriet Tubman anyone? Martin Luther King? Geronimo! Emma Goldman! Malcolm X!


okay, I guess we can keep Abraham Lincoln. Because even though he gave racist speeches and wasn't THAT progressive, he did free the slaves. (kind of) and I'm related to him. so yeah . . .

Woodrow Wilson!

I would have included Woody but the 100 G note is not in circulation. It is only used between branches of the Federal Reserve. Anyway I liked his earlier funnier movies better.