George Washington ..........$1
Thomas Jefferson ..............$2
Abraham Lincoln ...............$5
Alexander Hamilton ...........$10
Andrew Jackson ................$20
Ulysses S. Grant.................$50
Benjamin Franklin ..............$100
*William McKinley ............$500
*Grover Cleveland .............$1,000
*James Madison ................$5,000
*Salmon P. Chase ..............$10,000
*Woodrow Wilson .............$100,000
* These notes are no longer in production.
The Wilson $100,000 bills were produced 1934-35 and were issued by the Treasury to Federal Banks based upon held gold bullion stocks. They were used only for official transactions.
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| Obverse of $10,000 bill featuring Salmon P. Chase |
Here's one person on our money that you probably don't know, probably haven't seen - and probably don't own.
Salmon Chase served as Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln's cabinet from 1861 to 1864, during the first three years of the Civil War. That period of crisis witnessed two great changes in American financial policy, the establishment of a national banking system and the issue of a legal tender paper currency.
The first U.S. federal currency, the greenback demand note, was printed in 1861-1862, during Chase's tenure as Secretary of the Treasury. Thus, it was his responsibility to design the notes. In an effort to further his political career, his own face appeared on a variety of U.S. paper currency, starting with the $1 bill—so that the most amount of people could see him. Salmon P. Chase was instrumental in placing the phrase "In God We Trust" on United States currency and was also honored on the $10,000 bill, printed from 1928 to 1946.
