According to the poll from the Marist Institue for Public Opinion, Roosevelt beat out other well-known historical females who are being considered as the new face of the $10 bill.
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Currently, if it were up to the people, it’d be Eleanor Roosevelt gracing our currency.
Of the countless fearless women who’ve helped shape the United States of America, influencing its past, present, and future, how do we choose just one? Sitting at 11% each is Sacagawea, Amelia Earhart, and Susan B. Anthony.
Roosevelt had a larger lead among women, earning 33 percent of the votes after they were broken down by gender.
Tubman won an online contest conducted earlier this year by WomenOn20s, a group that was hoping to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.
I believe I’ve already expressed my dismay at the prospect of taking Alexander Hamilton off the $10 bill, as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has talked about doing.
The second most popular woman in the survey was Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), who went from being a slave to an abolitionist leader during the Civil War and was preferred by 17 percent of the 1,249 US adults surveyed.
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The new $10 bill will enter circulation in 2020- the 100th anniversary of the Constitution’s 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
