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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 834062, member: 11668"]The U.S. has had quite a few over the years.... Lincoln was on paper money during his lifetime (before that practice was prohibited), and has stayed there pretty much ever since. Garfield was assassinated in 1881, and appeared on a $5 note in 1882. McKinley was assassinated in 1901, and appeared on a $10 note in 1902. FDR died in office in 1945, and appeared on the dime in 1946. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and appeared on the half-dollar in 1964. If you don't want to count Presidents who died in office, then we've still got.... Grant left office in 1877 and appeared on a $5 note nine years later in 1886. Benjamin Harrison left office in 1893 and appeared on a $5 note nine years later in 1902. Ike left office in 1961 and appeared on the dollar coin ten years later in 1971. Wilson left office in 1921 and appeared on a $100,000 note fourteen years later in 1935 (though that one never circulated). Cleveland left office in 1897 and appeared on a $20 note seventeen years later in 1914. So that's *ten* different Presidents who were depicted on money within twenty years of their time in office.  Reagan left office in 1989, so it's been twenty-one years already.  Putting him on currency today would be well within historical norms.[/QUOTE]