The current bill was introduced in 1976 and retains Jefferson's portrait on the obverse but replaced Monticello on the reverse with an engraved modified reproduction of John Trumbull's painting Declaration of Independence instead.

Trumbull's Declaration of Independence Benjamin Harrison " The Signer "-Seated at Table-Fifth from left

Reportedly no contemporary portrait of Benjamin Harrison " The Signer " survives ; the figure labeled as " Benjamin Harrison " in John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence is actually based on his son Benjamin Harrison.

He was depicted in John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence even though he neither signed it nor was present when it was signed.

Mosaic of Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | Trumbull's Declaration of Independence

Rutledge is standing on the far right in John Trumbull's famous painting Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | The Declaration of Independence.

Of the five figures standing in the center of John Trumbull | John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, Robert Livingston is depicted in the center of the Committee of Five presenting the draft Declaration to the Second Continental Congress.

" The gathering of the founding fathers was depicted in John Trumbull's famous Declaration of Independence where Hopkins is easily distinguishable as the gentleman standing in the back wearing a hat.

In John Trumbull's Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | The Declaration of Independence, Wythe is in profile farthest to the viewer's left.

* Interactive Flash Version of John Trumbull's " Declaration of Independence "

In 1976 production of the two-dollar denomination was resumed and the two-dollar bill was finally assigned as a Federal Reserve Note, with a new design on the back featuring John Trumbull's depiction of the drafting of the United States Declaration of Independence replacing the previous design of Monticello.

An engraved rendition of John Trumbull's The Declaration of Independence replaced Monticello on the reverse.

Trumbull's Declaration of Independence | Declaration of Independence, a painting by John Trumbull depicting the Committee of Five presenting their draft of the United States Declaration of Independence | Declaration of Independence to the Congress on June 28, 1776.

Trumbull's painting was used for the back of the U. S. United States Two dollar bill | $ 2 bill, but Wythe's image was cut out of that depiction.

John Trumbull's Surrender of General Burgoyne stylizes the American win at Battle of Saratoga | Saratoga.

File: Yorktown80. JPG | Trumbull's depiction of the 1781 surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown

John Trumbull ( painter ) | John Trumbull's The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

In the 20th century, the U. S. Supreme Court ultimately adopted Trumbull's Thirteenth Amendment rationale for congressional power to ban racial discrimination by states and by private parties, in view of the fact that the Thirteenth Amendment does not require a state actor.

Author Michael Crichton and director Robert Wise were much impressed by Trumbull's work.

In late 1978, Trumbull's Future General Corporation, a research / special effects house that was funded by Gulf + Western and Paramount Pictures, was offered the job to produce the special effects for Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Paramount awarded the contract to effects house Robert Abel and Associates, and in a move seen by some as payback for Trumbull's refusal to take on the project, all but shuttered Future General.

The model of the Enterprise, already built by the time Trumbull's team took over, proved especially tricky.

In John Trumbull's painting Capture of the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton, Monroe can be seen lying wounded at left center of painting.

Students received the usual quota of Plutarch, Shakespeare, Swift, and Addison, as well as such Americans as Joel Barlow's Vision of Columbus, Timothy Dwight's Conquest of Canaan, and John Trumbull's poem M ' Fingal.

Trumbull's children were also influential in the war effort: Joseph Trumbull was a colonel in the Continental Army, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. was secretary to George Washington, and John Trumbull served first as a soldier and then as Washington's personal aide during the war.

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John Trumbull's Surrender of General Burgoyne. Prescott stands right of center wearing all brown, just behind Captain Morgan in white

In John Trumbull's famous painting, Sherman is literally front and center – of those standing up near the desk, he is the second person from the left.

In John Trumbull's " Washington Resigning His Commission ," a painting in the U. S. Capitol Rotunda, Humphreys is shown standing immediately behind Washington, in the same uniform and almost as tall as the general.

His death, immortalized in John Trumbull's painting, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775, galvanized the rebel forces, and he has been memorialized in many place names in the United States.

* The Trumbull Historical Society, founded in 1964, maintains a museum of Trumbull's past at 1856 Huntington Turnpike on the site of Abraham Nichols farm.

* Dorothy Seeley, " Tales of Trumbull's Past ", Trumbull Historical Society, 1984

Cameron and Trumbull have been friends for years, and it appears that Trumbull's contribution to a heightened theater experience may finally see its day, thanks to the influence of powerful directors like Cameron and Peter Jackson — nearly 30 years after its invention.

His Aunt Abby was an artist, and as one of two legatees of the estate of her great uncle American Revolutionary War artist John Trumbull, inherited many of Trumbull's Revolutionary War period paintings and sketches.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

The Declaration of Independence says that `` governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed ''.

New Englanders were a bit sensitive on the subject of their complicity in Negro slavery at the time of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, as Jefferson explained in his `` Autobiography '': ``

That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

Father Murray goes back to the Declaration of Independence, too, though I may add, with considerably more historical perception.

Sir -- When the colonies decided upon freedom from England, we insisted, through the Declaration of Independence, that the nations of the world recognize us as a separate political entity.

Jefferson writing the Declaration of Independence amid the catastrophes of revolution ; ;

During the Dorr trial the Democratic press condemned the proceedings and heralded Dorr as a martyr to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

An essay on `` Freedom '' written at 10 years of age quoted the Declaration of Independence, the freedom given to slaves in Canada, and the views of George Washington.

Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

Lincoln denounced the decision, alleging it was the product of a conspiracy of Democrats to support the Slave Power Lincoln argued, " The authors of the Declaration of Independence never intended ' to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity ', but they ' did consider all men created equal — equal in certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness '.

As early as the 1850s, a time when most political rhetoric focused on the sanctity of the Constitution, Lincoln redirected emphasis to the Declaration of Independence as the foundation of American political values — what he called the " sheet anchor " of republicanism.

On June 12, 1776, a day after appointing a committee to prepare a draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress resolved to appoint a committee of 13 to prepare a draft of a constitution for a union of the states.

* 1724 – Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

* 1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.

The Declaration of Independence refers to " unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America " adopted by the " Representatives of the united States of America " on July 4, 1776.

* 1766 – Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, politician, and preacher, helped draft the Texas Declaration of Independence ( d. 1861 )

* 1721 – Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence ( d. 1793 )

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.

* Declaration of Independence of Quito, proclaimed independence from Spain on August 10, 1809, but failed with the execution of all the conspirators of the movement on August 2, 1810.