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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 568356, member: 11668"]Since you say you're into coins too, there's another historical connection here: Carter Glass is the only person ever to have had his signature on U.S. currency *and* his portrait on a U.S. coin.  He's pictured on the 1936 Lynchburg commemorative half-dollar, since he was possibly the most famous son of that town....  Also, he was alive at the time the coin was issued, making him one of only five people to be depicted on a U.S. coin while living. For a bonus point, there's also exactly one currency signer who's been pictured on the *currency*.  That'd be F.E. Spinner, who appears on one design of the Third Issue 50c Fractional Currency.  The note was not only issued during his life; it was even issued during his term, so that his portrait and signature appear on the same note! Several currency designs from the 1860's depicted then-current government officials; the practice wasn't prohibited until later that decade.  Even then, the prohibition was only written to apply to currency and stamps; it's still technically legal for living people to appear on coins, though tradition frowns on it.[/QUOTE]