The Federal Reserve recently redesigned the $50 bill, but it still features a three-quarters profile of Ulysses S. Grant. I suggest a real improvement on this design: the portrait of Queen Lili'uokalani.

The last queen of Hawai'i should be honored on U.S. currency for many reasons. She was deposed as queen by the U.S. government (she was ordered to resign/abdicate) and she was put under house arrest, which was in violation of the standards of international law. Lili'uokalani always believed that the United States would realize its injustice and one day restore her to the throne, which was legally hers.

The $50 bill could represent our 50th state.

Marianne S. Hamstra | Manchester, Conn.