Posted on 07/10/2015 11:11:42 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Columbus, Ohio (AP) • Doug Hamilton is just fine with plans to put a woman’s portrait on U.S. paper money, but he’d prefer that the Treasury Department leave the $10 bill alone — particularly the prominent visage of his great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Alexander Hamilton.
The 10-spot is a source of family pride in Hamilton’s house in suburban Columbus, a dignified symbol of the historical importance of his ancestor, whose picture has been on it since 1929. So naturally, Hamilton started making some noise when he heard about the proposal that has Alexander Hamilton sharing the note with a deserving woman yet to be chosen.
The 64-year-old salesman for IBM has joined a growing number of voices in a backlash against what he calls the “diminishing” of Hamilton, the first secretary of the Treasury who founded the nation’s banking system.
“He’s the father of paper money,” says Doug Hamilton, who has a son and grandson carrying the name of their famous ancestor. (His daughter, Elizabeth, was named for Alexander Hamilton’s wife.)
He’s urging people to sign a petition on the White House “We The People” website, and this weekend he’ll be preaching the Hamiltonian gospel at a series of annual events in New York and New Jersey planned around the anniversary of Alexander Hamilton’s death on July 12, 1804, a day after his duel with Aaron Burr.
The trip also will include a preview of the hip-hop musical “Hamilton,” based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton, opening on Broadway.
Nice to know some of his descendants are still with us!
Instead of a Kenyan, couldn’t we just elect Americans to rule over us? Maybe a Hamilton would like the job.
We can keep his Kin’s face on the bill. If we need Margaret Sanger’s face on something, maybe a death notice?!
There’s going to be a hip-hop musical about Hamilton?
Words fail me.
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Thank goodness this change is scheduled to happen until long after Obama leaves office. Hopefully a Republican will nix this stupid idea.
No woman I can think of has earned the right to be on our money.
That is just too disgusting for words.
Using Hip-hop and musical in the same sentence; inconceivable!
I say we replace him with Burr.
Well that's not such a good thing, in my view.
(h/t to PowerLine's AmmoGrrl)
What, replace Alexander Hamilton with a woman?
What woman?
Alexander Hamilton is a face that SHOULD be on our money. We owe him because his monetary policies got us on our financial feet in a viable and responsible manner after the War of Independence.
That was HIS doing.
This is as shameful as the effort to disinter the remains of Nathan Forrest Bedford and his wife because of his part in the Civil War.
Margaret Higgins Sanger, one of the suggested women to replace Hamilton on the $10 dollar note is one of the most evil women in American history. She founded Planned Parenthood as a plan for negro genocide.
I agree...but he was a Federalist just like his hero John Adams.
He says that like its a good thing...
There is no more important enabler of our profligate government than the divorce U.S. dollars from gold.
Sounds like a train wreck. :chuckle: Arggh This day. Dunno whether to laugh or cry.
Money, flags, monuments. This is getting corny.
I still think the face of Susan B. Anthony will be on the new US$10 bill. Mind you, she was raised a very religious Quaker, and that will just drive the Left crazy....
Personally, I wouldn't see this load of crap, if they PAID me.
“I still think the face of Susan B. Anthony will be on the new US$10 bill. Mind you, she was raised a very religious Quaker, and that will just drive the Left crazy”
I don’t think it should change, but when it does it will no doubt be a black woman just for the sake of having a Negro on the money. Same reason we got Obama.
“It’s on Broadway now, Hamilton is played by a Puerto-Rican,”
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Astonishing——and people are forking over too much money to see it.
There really IS a sucker born every minute.
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She didn’t work out too well on the stupid dollar coin now did she?
The problem was the design of the coin itself—it was too close in size to the US quarter coin. I still think Anthony is the lead candidate for the first woman to be depicted on US paper currency.
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