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Spencer Clark is probably the most obscure American ever to appear on U.S. banknotes, and there are a surprising number of people (officially, 53) who've been featured on things like legal tender, silver certificates, Federal Reserve notes and, of course, your everyday currency notes.
Early Progressives co-opted Abraham Lincoln’s legacy to justify their program of expansive government powers over American life. Conservative and libertarian thinking today has assumed, that the Progressives’ appropriation of Lincoln was legitimate.