Readers pick Margaret Chase Smith to grace $10 bill

June 23, 2015Home#thenew10, margaret chase smith

More than 1,000 BDN readers recently cast their votes online for women with Maine roots who should grace the $10 bill. They clearly prefer former Skowhegan legislator Margaret Chase Smith. Sixty-two percent of readers chose Smith, the first woman to serve in both chambers of Congress. The distant runner-up was former Labor Secretary Frances […]

What woman with Maine roots should be on the $10 bill? Cast your vote.

June 19, 2015Home#thenew10, famous mainers, money

By Dan MacLeod

Since the U.S. Treasury announced it would include a woman on the $10 bill in 2020 we think it’s only right that it consider putting a woman with Maine roots on the bill.

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Readers pick Margaret Chase Smith to grace $10 bill

What woman with Maine roots should be on the $10 bill? Cast your vote.

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