--- 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. title: Hillary Clinton Wants To Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Hillary Clinton Shows Her Support for Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 14, 2015 4:43 PM CUT  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 14, 2015 4:43 PM CUT 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/ "undefined") 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/ "undefined") 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/ "undefined")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/ "undefined") ```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":"2026-02-22T07:12:42.344Z","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 topic"],"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"}}]}] ```