THE SOLUTION:
Statesman Ben Franklin is the oldest of the bunch, born way back in 1706. The whole list:
1706 – Benjamin Franklin ($100)
1732 – George Washington ($1)
1743 – Thomas Jefferson ($2)
1755 – Alexander Hamilton ($10)
1767 – Andrew Jackson ($20)
1809 – Abraham Lincoln ($5)
1822 – Ulysses S. Grant ($50)
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You forgot 1822 – Grant ($50), which would firmly put him as the baby of the family.
posted by Jeff on 4-27-2009 at 8:27 am
I switched Jefferson and Hamilton. Still pretty good for not having the images of bills right in front of me. The rollover image didn’t seem to work for me…
posted by Nick on 4-27-2009 at 10:54 am
What about
$500: William McKinley
$1,000: Grover Cleveland
$5,000: James Madison
$10,000: Salmon P. Chase
$100,000: Woodrow Wilson
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_denominations_of_United_States_currency
posted by HP on 4-27-2009 at 12:50 pm
That would have added a twist, HP.
FWIW, I didn’t include any of the larger-denomination bills since (1) few people have seen them, and (2) they were taken out of circulation 40 years ago in 1969.
posted by Sandy Wood on 4-27-2009 at 12:56 pm
Yay! I got it!
I only had to peek at the $10 – for some reason I blanked out on Hamilton…
This brings up a question that might make for a good article — How did they choose who would be on U.S. currency (bills and coins) and for which denomination?
posted by Nerak on 4-27-2009 at 1:12 pm