--- title: Hillary Clinton Supports Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill description: Hillary Clinton said she supports behind putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, part of a larger movement to get women on U.S. currency. canonical: https://time.com/3858943/hillary-clinton-harriet-tubman-20-dollar-bill/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-14T16:43:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:39.716Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Wants To Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill og:description: Which woman would you put? og:url: https://time.com/3858943/hillary-clinton-harriet-tubman-20-dollar-bill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Wants To Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill twitter:description: Which woman would you put? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Hillary Clinton Shows Her Support for Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 14, 2015 4:43 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson May 14, 2015 4:43 PM UTC Hillary Clinton just threw her support behind putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. > [](https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/598883713892638720) Tubman [recently won an online poll](http://time.com/3856138/harriet-tubman-20-bill/) about which woman should replace former President Andrew Jackson on the bill, edging out Eleanor Roosevelt for the win. A petition was delivered to the White House this week by the [Women on 20s campaign](http://www.womenon20s.org/) to push President Barack Obama to support the movement, and a bill was also [introduced in Congress ](http://time.com/3830613/congressman-illinois-woman-american-currency/)recently to try to get a woman on the 20. According to Clinton, Tubman’s face on the bill would be “awesome, well deserved — and about time.” [_Read Next: Exclusive: Read a 9-Year-Old’s Letter to Obama About Putting a Woman on U.S. Currency – And His Response_](http://time.com/3765227/woman-us-currency-obama-letter/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3858943/hillary-clinton-harriet-tubman-20-dollar-bill/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3858943/hillary-clinton-harriet-tubman-20-dollar-bill/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Shows Her Support for Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill","datePublished":"2015-05-14T16:43:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:39.716Z","description":"Tubman beat out Eleanor Roosevelt in an online poll","url":"https://time.com/3858943/hillary-clinton-harriet-tubman-20-dollar-bill/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","feminism","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3858943/hillary-clinton-harriet-tubman-20-dollar-bill/","name":"Hillary Clinton Shows Her Support for Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill"}}]}] ```