Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Before George Washington, whose face appeared on the $1 bill?"
...In 1862, the Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase was in the unique position of designing the first one dollar bill. So who do you think he put on that bill? Himself, of course. It wasn't until 1869, that the one dollar bill portrait was changed to bear George Washington’s face. Although Chase may not be history's most familiar name, the former Senator who also served as Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court certainly made his mark on American politics. Chase's face also graces the obverse of the $10,000 bill.
