Which American president appears on a one dollar bill?

The story behind the answer

George Washington appears on the U.S. one-dollar bill. His portrait, based on Gilbert Stuart’s famous painting, has been on the $1 since the small-size currency redesign in 1929, fittingly honoring the nation’s first president on its most commonly used denomination.

To remember: “First president on the first dollar.” For context, Thomas Jefferson is on the $2 bill, Abraham Lincoln is on the $5 bill, and Benjamin Franklin—though a Founding Father, not a president—appears on the $100 bill. The $1’s reverse features elements of the Great Seal (the eagle and the