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U.S Treasury Department confirms that abolitionist Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 dollar bill. The transition is set to be completed by 2020. Check out the full story below.

Via ABC 7 News

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman will be featured on the new $20 bill, a representative of the U.S. Treasury Department confirmed Wednesday. This is in lieu of the department’s original plan to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill.

The plan is to issue the new bills by 2020 in honor of the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. Last June, it was announced that a woman would replace Hamilton, the first treasury of the secretary, on the $10 bill. The treasury department solicited ideas for which woman that should be by launching #TheNew10 campaign.
The discussion about putting women on U.S. currency first gained traction thanks the Women on 20s campaign. That campaign held a poll last May asking people to vote on which woman they would want to see. Tubman received the most votes, followed by Eleanor Roosevelt. That poll received more than half a million votes. Roosevelt was favored in an August Marist poll.

Since the announcement last June, the leaders of the Women on 20s campaign have maintained that a woman should be on the $20 bill, not the $10.

The change to the plan also follows the popularity of Hamilton, the hit Broadway musical which follows the life of the Founding Father, which opened last August. The creator and star of the show, Lin-Manuel Miranda, tweeted in March after visiting the White House that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew thought Miranda would be satisfied with the plan.