# Who should we put on the $50 bill?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 4, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-we-put-on-the-50-bill/531267 "2010-03-04T13:04:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-we-put-on-the-50-bill/531267/101 "2010-03-12T04:21:16Z")

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> [@Frank](#):
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> 😕 A case could be made that Washington, for example, should be on every form of U.S. currency that exists. As the General who led the War of Independence, as a former general who led the War of Independence and did not become a military dictator, as the President of the Constitutional Convention, as the first President of the United States, and - perhaps the single most important for the system of government here - the first _former_ President of the United States.
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> Perhaps if you can suggest someone who could appropriately take the place of the doubled-up ones, but I’d rather dump Jackson or Cleveland.

OK, two people on each thing: Washington and his lesser buddy.

This thread has several names that qualify.

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**Author:** ![GreatStuffMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f04885/32.png) [@GreatStuffMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreatStuffMan)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-we-put-on-the-50-bill/531267/102 "2010-03-12T13:23:34Z")

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> [@Lubricious\_Integument](#):
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> Corporate logos? How about a Domino’s Pizza $50?

lol

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**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-we-put-on-the-50-bill/531267/103 "2010-03-12T18:35:10Z")

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> [@jasg](#):
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> If we put Reagan on the fifty, then can we rename the airport after Grant?

I’d take that deal in a heartbeat!

(I live in Arlington, and the CVS in the Clarendon neighborhood has a bunch of large photographs of the Union troops occuping Arlington during the Civil War. I love that - a constant reminder that the Union won’t start no shit, but the Union sure as hell won’t take no shit.)

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