Why is Benjamin Franklin on the 100 dollar bill?
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he did more than most presidents did so thats y
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Honestly, I think the presidents who were seen as most important or most influential were used for the different bills.  Plus Benjamin Franklin on the $100 (he was never a president).  As far as who goes on which bill, I think the more important/influential presidents were put on the more commonly used bills.  Hence, Washington is on the $1, which is used quite often, while Grant is on the $50, which was not as common when our modern monetary system was established.
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The Abraham Lincoln penny was minted in 1908 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of Lincoln's birth. In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt chose portraitist and sculptor Victor David Brenner to design the penny, probably because he admired Brenner's previous works of art. Those works included a bronze relief plaque bearing a portrait of Lincoln. Brenner adapted this design for the "heads," or obverse side of the penny. He based the plaque on a photograph of Lincoln taken on February 9, 1864 by Anthony Berger. Lincoln faced right in the photo, so he faces right on the plaque and faces right on the penny.
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The continental congress voted it.  Benjamin Franklin wanted the wild turkey.\n\nBald eagles are not extinct.
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I can't find any evidence that Benjamin Franklin had a middle name. Even his autobiography doesn't include one.
824707
a hundred pennies, duh
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I think it was Ben Franklin. He did believe that freedom had it's cost.
1022917
i like washington cause he chopped down a cherry tree--wow we went from a president that chopped down a tree to one that slept around on his wife-or had sexual relations-wow where did our morals go-anyway-i also like ben franklin-cause he is on money and shares my name...maybe draw a cherry tree for washington and a large bill for franklin
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I like the way you think....Ben Franklin was first...as far as applying to today..unwarranted wire taps for "national security" the politics of fear the pres and vp employed to win? the last election  AG says pres has right to order warrantless searches of property......Sorry all of that crap pisses me off!
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Yes, it is the new ten dollar bill. Supposed to thwart counterfeiting.
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17 [O.S. January 6] 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the most prominent of the Founders and early political figures, inventor, and a statesmen of the United States.\n\nOne of the earliest Founders, Franklin was noted for his curiosity, writings, ingenuity and diversity of interests. His wise and scintillating writings are proverbial to this day. He shaped the American Revolution; a leader of the Enlightenment, he gained the recognition of scientists and intellectuals across Europe and the United States. An agent in London before the Revolution, and Minister to France during, he more than anyone defined the new nation in the minds of Europe. His success in securing French military and financial aid was the turning point for American victory over Britain. He invented the lightning rod; he was an early proponent of colonial unity; historians hail him as the "First American". The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania marked Franklin's 300th birthday in January 2006 with a wide array of exhibitions, and events citing Franklin's extraordinary accomplishments throughout his illustrious career.\n\nBorn in Boston, Massachusetts to a tallow-maker, Franklin learned printing from his older brother and became a newspaper editor, printer, and merchant in Philadelphia, becoming very wealthy. He spent many years in England and published the famous Poor Richard's Almanack and the Pennsylvania Gazette. He formed both the first public lending library and fire department in America as well as the Junto, a political discussion club.\n\nHe became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. A diplomatic genius, Franklin was almost universally admired among the French as American minister to Paris, and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. From 1775 to 1776, Franklin was Postmaster General under the Continental Congress and from 1785 to his death in 1790 was President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.\n\nFranklin was interested in science and technology, carrying out his famous electricity experiments and invented the Franklin stove, medical catheter, lightning rod, swimfins, glass armonica (not the harmonica, which was invented long after Franklin), and bifocals. He also played a major role in establishing the higher education institutions that would become the University of Pennsylvania and the Franklin and Marshall College. In addition, Franklin was a noted linguist, fluent in five languages. He also practiced and published on astrology (see Poor Richard's Almanac).\n\nFranklin was also noted for his philanthropy and several liaisons, including that which produced his illegitimate Loyalist son William Franklin, later the colonial governor of New Jersey. Towards the end of his life, he became one of the most prominent early American abolitionists.
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There are 4,563 ways to make exactly $100 using $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills.  I made an Excel spreadsheet that found them all, but please don't ask me to list them:)\n\nGood luck.
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Dr. Franklin all the way.\n\nHis 300th birthday is this year.  That would be ahorrible birthday present to take away his likeness off of the 100.
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umm not sure i understand your question correctly but if you are asking about the first billion dollar budget for the federal government, it was duriing benjamin harrison's presidency which was why congress during that time was nicknamed "the billion dollar congress"\n\ni have no idea if thats what you asked though
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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. Since this was on a Sunday, his father had him immediately baptized, to avoid any superstitious curse on him.
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$100\n\nThere was only as high as a $100,000 bill from the 1930's to my knowlege. A collector's item $1,000,000 was printed in 1988 on real currency paper, but they're only selling for $15-50 a piece. There was never a real $1,000,000 bill printed by the U.S. Treasury.
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You can get all the info you want on US banknotes from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving at http://www.bep.treas.gov/ & on coinage from http://www.usmint.gov/ .\n\nBTW the previous posters are correct. Jefferson is on the face of the two dollar bill and on the heads side of the nickle.