Women Who Fit the Bill The Most Likely Female Candidates for the New $10 Note

A woman will grace the redesigned $10 bill in 2020 U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced on Wednesday.

The decision on which woman will break the paper ceiling won't be made for several months and Lew will make the final call but he wants the public to weigh in via a planned website and on social media with the hashtag TheNew10 CNN Money reports.

Many people on Twitter have responded to the call throwing out names including Harriet Tubman Eleanor Roosevelt Rosa Parks Sojourner Truth Wilma Mankiller and more. Here are some of the Tweets

TheNew10 Wilma Mankiller for the new $10. First Female elected as Chief of the Cherokee Nation.....one of my role models.

Rita Smith ( sollie404) June 18 2015

I vote for Sojourner Truth on TheNew10

Mike ( PaulMichaelMalo) June 18 2015

Sojourner Truth was my top pick in the WomenOn20s poll and still is. Harriet Tubman a close second. thenew10 abouttime

Sewell Chan ( sewellchan) June 18 2015

Why one Let's put Sacajawea Harriet Tubman Eleanor Roosevelt Rosa Parks in a Mount Rushmore esque tribute on the new $10 bill. TheNew10

Matt Dawson ( Matt_Dawson) June 18 2015

The woman who fits the bill must by law be no longer living and she should represent the theme of American democracy.

Andrew Hamilton the nation's first treasury secretary has been on the $10 bill since 1929 after replacing President Andrew Jackson. The last woman to be featured on U.S. paper currency was Martha Washington who was on the $1 Silver Certificate between 1891 and 1896.

Martha Washington on the $1 Silver Certificate

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The female financial takeover may not stop with the $10 bill. After an online campaign to feature a woman on the $20 went viral a few months ago lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced legislation to make that hope a reality according to Business Insider.

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Earlier this year the nonprofit group that launched the campaign Women on 20s released a nationwide online survey asking people to vote on which woman should take Jackson's face on the $20. More than 600 000 people voted and Tubman was announced the winner in March with Roosevelt coming in a close second. Parks and Mankiller also earned high rankings. Other contenders included Susan B. Anthony Clara Barton Betty Friedan and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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