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Sure, Abigail Adams and Dolley Madison were fine at what they did. We should not forget our political heroines. However, just how important is politics, compared to science and industry? And what could be more important than being freed from corsets?

Maria Mitchell
http://space.about.com/cs/astronomerbios...

Annie Jump Cannon
http://www.womanastronomer.com/acannon.h...

Admiral Grace Hopper
http://gracehopper.org/

Mary Phelps Jacob
http://www.women-inventors.com/Mary-Phel...

I'd vote for Ayn Rand 1st as many in that gulch did, but outside our world she wouldn't' get a lot of support. Personally being a new england male I do not embrace change (or hope) very well.

Thanks for the education, MikeM. Numismatics is one subject that I woefully uneducated on, even though I do have some gold coins.

Comrades, this is the woman who was on the Five Dollar Silver Certificate of 1896.
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank educational archive ...
http://www.philadelphiafed.org/education...

Comrades, you need to brush up on your American history. We _already_ have had women on our paper money. Martha Washington was on the FRONT of the One Dollar silver certificates of Series1886 and series 1891; and she was on the BACK (w/ George) on the 1896 series One Dollar Silver Certificates.

Contrary to the claim of peterchunt, many non-presidents have been on US Federal Treasury money (not private bank notes) including Samuel Morse and Robert Fulton and a slew of Civil War generals, Secretary of the Treasury William Windom, and an ordinary farm wife with child and husband on the Legal Tender Notes 1875 to 1907.

Pocahontas was on the backs of the $20 Compound Interest Notes of 1864 and the $20 National Bank Notes of 1875.

Salmon P. Chase was alive and kicking when his portrait graced the $10 interest-bearing note of 1863.

I could go on. Anyone who is really interested in money should read books about numismatics. Allow me to recommend Whitman Publishing (not just because I review for them) here: https://www.whitman.com/store/Inventory/...

True but I know of no women of the stature of Franklin or Hamilton.

You need to brush up on your American history, comrade. Benjamin Franklin ($100 bill) was never president. Alexander Hamilton ($10 bill) was never president. We could have anyone not living* on any monetary medium. (*It is a law, but some exceptions are known.)

Until we get a female president, there are no female candidates for the dollar bill. But the left will say this is an example of inequality. Ignore them for their stupidity.

Ummm...Hilary Clinton printed on some Benghazi Bucks? OK...tasteless I know.
All kidding aside..as a teacher of history...I'd probably go with Harriet Tubman...she put the idea of liberty into action without regard to her own safety.
Abigail Adams, who served as the conscience of her husband John would be a close second for me.

Sally Sanford. If we're getting screwed by our monetary policies, might as well be done by a pro.

I refuse to vote in that poll. The very question assumes the persistence of currency that is not worth the paper it's printed on. Beyoncé the Skank deserves the distinction of being a woman to replace George Washington on the one-dollar bill.

I might vote for Ayn Rand's face to appear on a gold bearer bond: "The Mulligan Mint will pay to the bearer on demand one Troy pound of gold, one thousand fine." Such a document would be a warehouse receipt, not a fractional-reserve bank note.

Beautiful!! But prefer him saying "My lying
days are done".

Yes. They could make state-specific $1 pieces, as they do quarters. I would like a Lady Forward coin too. Her real name is "Wisconsin", but that's confusing and people call her Lady Forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_...

No woman.
Not because I have anything against a woman, but the one dollar bill is the most commonly used paper money in our land, and very correctly, we wouldn't have a land if it weren't for George Washington. He is correctly, the father of our country and very few humans have risen to the stature of this great man. No one, man or woman should usurp Washington's place on the dollar bill and even though we name our capitol after him, and put up monuments to him, there is nothing that would be too much to honor him.

Woops. Unclear: fewer people in the future due to more people in the immediate future (hopefully) asking that question.

Jan, good heart; fuzzy typing

Damn the gold-and-silver torpedoes, full Rand ahead!

Get her name out in the front runners for the honor - she will probably not be chosen, due to political climate, but if she comes up with the most votes there will be fewer people asking, "Ayn Rand? Who is she?"

Jan, long game

She _would_ illustrate the inflation theme ...

When I first saw the voting scenario, I thought AR would be a good candidate to be imaged on the nations currency. Then I figured it would be an insult to have her image emblazoned on a fiat currency. She probably would go along with being printed on a gold certificate as long as it wasn't advertised specifically as a gender issue, as she didn't like political pandering in such a way.

Dolly Madison is a nice call.

Why? Who is pushing this? Is this mandatory now because of The Fairness Act? Or is it because of the new Political Correctness Law? How did they select who went on our current currency? Does anyone really care? I'll apologize now, I'm just so depressed and worn out by the actions, non-actions of this administration of ours that everything else seems mute. I think George needs to be the only one ever on the dollar bill, it helps some people remember he was our first president. And let’ see, Lincoln (16) divided by $5 equals 3 with 1 left over. It must be some trigonometry they used, I just don’t get that one, how was Lincoln selected for the five dollar bill? Why a woman now, why not another man? Just be glad we don’t have a forty four dollar bill. Oh no, you don’t think this subject came up because, oh never mind, I wouldn’t want to held responsible for even suggesting it.

Lady Liberty
She above all of us, male or female, deserves that place.

Indeed! And designed by Tiffany... :)