History: In 1862 when the first dollar bill was issued, whose face was printed on the front?

Answer Salmon P. Chase

While the face of George Washington appears on the dollar bill today, the original dollar bill featured the face of Salmon P. Chase, the Treasury Secretary at the time. Washington's face didn't appear on the bill until a almost a century later in 1963.

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