Poll shows Eleanor Roosevelt a favorite for the new $10 bill

More than one in four Americans are hoping the soon-to-be redesigned $10 bill will feature Eleanor Roosevelt, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released Wednesday.

Whoever is chosen, she will be the first to appear on paper currency for the United States in 119 years.

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. Sitting at 11% each is Sacagawea, Amelia Earhart, and Susan B. Anthony.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will make the final decision on who will be placed on the redesigned $10 bill. While Tubman was the second most popular choice in this poll, she was the favored choice to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill as part of an unrelated campaign called “Woman on 20s”.

The poll showed the former first lady in first place with 27 percent, trailed by African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who received 17 percent of 1,249 votes, and Native American explorer Sacagawea, who received 13 percent.

The public is encouraged to weigh in and engage over social media with the hashtag #TheNew10.