Moorestown Friends Alum Alice Paul to be Featured on $10 Bill

Moorestown, NJ -- Moorestown Friends School alum Alice Paul will be among the women featured on the back of the $10 bill beginning in 2020.

Paul, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott will be among those featured on the back of the bill in recognition of the women’s suffrage parade of 1913, the U.S Department of the Treasury announced on April 20.

Thousands marched down Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. Capitol to the Treasury Department in Washington, DC, and demanded an amendment to the Constitution enfranchising women.

The women included on the bill were instrumental in having the 19th amendment passed.

Paul graduated from Moorestown Friends School in 1901. She became acquainted with the British suffrage movement and its methods, including hunger strikes while studying in England on a scholarship, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

She was born in New Jersey in 1885, and passed away in 1977.

Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first Treasury Secretary and architect of America’s economic system, will continue to be featured on the front of the bill.

The attached image of Alice Paul was posted on modernmoney.treasury.gov.