For more than a year now, the Obama administration has been teasing America about possible changes to the $10 bill, primarily the removal of the portrait of founding father Alexander Hamilton.

Last Wednesday, Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew announced that beginning soon the $10 bill will no longer exclusively feature the face of Hamilton. It will feature the portrait of a woman, whom Lew said will be named at a later date.

“I’m proud to announce that the new $10 bill will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman,” Lew said, "Someone who was a champion for our inclusive democracy."

Lew revealed that the woman who will adorn the bill will be announced by the end of the year. Top choices are said to be civil rights activist Rosa Parks, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Red Cross founder Clara Barton, and abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

 

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