Eleanor Roosevelt is leading choice for new face on $10 Bill

Poll results released Wednesday morning say 27 percent of Americans believe it should be Eleanor Roosevelt, the longest-serving First Lady in U.S. history. The former first lady and humans right advocate was followed by Harriet Tubman with 17 percent of the vote, and Sacagawea rounding out the top three with 13 percent.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced in June that the currency, which now features the portrait of founding father and first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, would be redesigned and feature a woman who was a “champion for our inclusive democracy”.

The redesign comes on the heels of another effort to put a woman’s face on American currency.

Lew said that within a few weeks of the initial announcement, there had been over 1.5 million interactions discussing the new $10 on social media and from public forums, round tables and open houses.

Twenty-seven percent of Americans prefer to have the face of Roosevelt (1884-1962) on the newly-designed bill, and that percentage rises to 33 percent among women alone, according to the survey conducted by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion of New York and the McClatchy Company.

Other contenders who were not included in the poll are Betsy Ross, Maya Angelou, Pocahontas, and Mother Theresa.

Eleanor Roosevelt would certainly be a sensible choice given her many incredible accomplishments.

This request demonstrates “her deliberate willingness to use the Federal Bureau of Investigation to undermine the First Amendment”, Reed writes, concluding, “We can surely do better”. Harriet Tubman garnered second place (18%) of the vote with women but is the leading selection among African Americans, snagging 47%.

Interesting to note that 11 percent of the respondents were unsure about naming any female to be featured on the $10 bill – while 4 percent felt that no woman should be on it at all.