Trivia: What U.S. President issued the first printed $1 bill in 1862?
Woodrow Wilson
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Van Buren
William Harrison
The correct answer is Abraham Lincoln
So why is this answer correct? : The U.S. was already four score and six years into its democratic experiment — and also engaged in the Civil War — when Salmon P. Chase, Abraham Lincoln’s treasury secretary, issued the first U.S. $1 bill. The bill featured the face of Chase, but seven years later, it was redesigned with George Washington’s visage. Creating these “greenbacks” helped Lincoln finance the Union war effort and ensure the country would not “perish from the Earth.”