An addendum to http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/m1000.html
Woodrow Wilson is on the $100,000 note, according to http://www.ustreas.gov/opc/opc0034.html#quest15
An addendum to http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/m1000.html
Woodrow Wilson is on the $100,000 note, according to http://www.ustreas.gov/opc/opc0034.html#quest15
Hold on a minute here! I didn’t notice this the first time I read the mailbag item, but it says
Well, Salmon P. Chase was also Secretary of the Treasury from March 7, 1861 to June 30, 1864.
Historical Listing of Secretaries of the Treasury
I suggest that this is why he was chosen to be on the $10,000 bill, and is therefore the more relevant fact for the purposes of the mailbag item.
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So who was on the trillion dollar bill?
Or did you mean "Trillion Dollar Bill ?
This episode of the Simsons ran today (Burns steals the bill) and it appears that a picture of president Harry Truman was on it.