The United States’ first president, George Washington, has been on the front side of the one-dollar bill since 1869, Maurer says. His portrait is framed in an oval on the center of the bill ...

NEW YORK — In a former box factory on an old Brooklyn street named for him, half a mile from where his defeated army escaped by night to fight another day, George Washington has all but come ...

Before George Washington, the US dollar bill featured someone rather less famous. Can you name him? It's Salmon P. Chase, of course, the treasury secretary under President Abraham Lincoln ...

A dollar bill might not be worth a lot ... which was issued during the Civil War, did not feature George Washington. Instead, it featured Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury at the time ...

That hair you’ve seen so many times on the dollar bill? That hair he’s got ... Ron Chernow in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington: A Life, George Washington “never wore a wig.” ...

While some people are in favor of eliminating the $1 bill, this common denomination has a fascinating history. The dollar's design ... during the Civil War. George Washington didn't appear on ...