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Lazarus on $20 bill

Instead of replacing Founding Father Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, I propose replacing Andrew Jackson with Emma Lazarus on the $20 bill.

As author of the The New Colossus, she made the Statue of Liberty the symbol known all over the world as the epitome of the United States. With all due respect to Native Americans, we, for the most part, have been, are and will be a land of immigrants.

Scott F. Rosenberg, Miami

This story was originally published September 21, 2015 at 8:32 PM with the headline "Lazarus on $20 bill."

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