<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Jeanette Rankin.</div><div><br></div><div>From Wikipedia: <p><b>Jeannette Pickering Rankin</b> (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was the first woman elected to the <a title="United States Congress" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">United States Congress</font></a>, in 1916 and again in 1940, from the state of <a title="Montana" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">Montana</font></a>.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin#cite_note-obit-2" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">[</font><font color="#0066cc" size="2">2</font><font color="#0066cc" size="2">]</font></a></sup> After winning her <a title="U.S. House of Representatives" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._House_of_Representatives" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">House</font></a> seat in 1916 she said, "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last."<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin#cite_note-WIC-3" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">[</font><font color="#0066cc" size="2">3</font><font color="#0066cc" size="2">]</font></a></sup></p><p>Rankin's two terms in Congress coincided with U.S. entry into both <a title="World Wars" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wars" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">World Wars</font></a>. A lifelong <a title="Pacifist" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifist" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">pacifist</font></a>, she was one of 56 members of Congress who <a title="United States declaration of war on Germany (1917)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_declaration_of_war_on_Germany_(1917)" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">voted against entry</font></a> into <a title="World War I" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">World War I</font></a> in 1917, and the only member of Congress to vote against <a title="United States declaration of war upon Japan" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_declaration_of_war_upon_Japan" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">declaring war on Japan</font></a> after the <a title="Attack on Pearl Harbor" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">attack on Pearl Harbor</font></a> in 1941.<sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin#cite_note-WIC-3" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">[</font><font color="#0066cc" size="2">3</font><font color="#0066cc" size="2">]</font></a></sup><sup><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin#cite_note-4" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">[</font><font color="#0066cc" size="2">4</font><font color="#0066cc" size="2">]</font></a></sup> In addition, she was the only woman to cast a Congressional vote in favor of the <a title="19th Amendment to the United States Constitution" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">Constitutional Amendment</font></a> granting women unconditional voting rights.</p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Question, V-Peeps: Who do you think should be on the $10 bill in 2020?</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of CNN at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/17/news/economy/woman-on-ten-dollar-bill/index.html" target="_blank">http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/17/news/economy/woman-on-ten-dollar-bill/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 25px;padding:0px;line-height:64px;font-family:CNN,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:62px;font-weight:300">Finally! Woman to be on new $10 bill</h1></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">On Wednesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said a woman will be featured on a redesigned $10 bill in 2020 -- the 100th anniversary of the Constitution's 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">A decision on who the woman will be won't be made for several months.</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The last woman on U.S. paper currency was Martha Washington, who was on the $1 Silver Certificate between 1891 and 1896. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"We have only made changes to the faces on our currency a few times since bills were first put into circulation, and I'm proud that the new 10 will be the first bill in more than a century to feature the portrait of a woman," Lew said.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Lew, who will make the final decision on who will grace the currency, is asking the public for help. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The department will launch a website, and is asking for input over social media with the hashtag #TheNew10. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">What's his criteria? Lew wants the next generation of U.S. currency to underscore the theme of American democracy. The portrait must also -- by law -- be of someone who is no longer living. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Hamilton, who was the nation's first treasury secretary, has been on the $10 bill since 1929. He replaced Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh president. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Jackson moved to the $20 bill, where he remains today.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The $20 was at the center of a recent campaign to put a woman on U.S. currency. But Treasury <a style="margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration:none" href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/20/news/economy/new-10-bill/index.html?iid=EL" target="_blank">had already pegged</a> the $10 as the next one to be updated.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Bills are flagged for updates mainly for security reasons, Lew said. It was a "happy coincidence" that a push to put a woman on American money happened as the $10 note came under consideration. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Lew said Hamilton will also be a part of the new design. He said it's up for discussion whether Hamilton will appear alongside a woman or be the centerpiece of one version of the new bill. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Either way, the Hamilton $10 isn't going anywhere soon, since there are about 1.9 billion $10s in circulation today.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 30px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">In another first for American greenbacks, the new $10 bill will include a "tactile feature" to allow blind people to distinguish it from other denominations.</span></p></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Here is my suggestion . . .</div><div><img alt="image1.jpeg" src="cid:25F1DF0D-9433-45FD-9662-113B97706C05"></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Ten_Dollar_Bill.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Ten_Dollar_Bill.jpg</a></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Need change for your ten?</span></div><div><img alt="image2.jpeg" src="cid:5ECDA1AF-354B-43CB-B890-D79967DE43CB"></div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Ten_Dollar_Bill_Change.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Ten_Dollar_Bill_Change.jpg</a><span><br></span><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div>=======================================================<br>
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