President-elect Trump vowed this week to reverse former President Obama's 2015 decision to change the name of North America's highest peak to its Coyukon Athabaskan name “Denali,” meaning “high peak” or “greatness.”
Speaking to conservatives at a convention in Phoenix, Trump pledged and noted that President William McKinley was also a Republican who believed in tariffs. He first promised to undo the action Obama took in August 2015 and called for 'An insult to Ohio' Where McKinley was born and raised.
During his remarks in Phoenix, he also pledged to undo Democrats' renaming of Southern military bases bearing Confederate names — such as Fort Liberty in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which was formerly named for General Braxton Bragg.
Gold prospector William Dickey first named the 20,320-foot mountain “Mount McKinley” in 1896, after learning that the Ohio native had won the Republican presidential nomination — and in a swipe at silver prospectors he met those who favored Democrat William Dickey. Bryan Jennings and his plan to get silver. Standard for the dollar.
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William McKinley (1843-1901) of Ohio was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901. (Universal History Archive/Universal Image Collection via Getty Images)
Six months into his second term, McKinley was visiting Buffalo, New York, when anarchist Leon Czolgoss assassinated him in a tirade. Czolgosz believed that the roots of economic inequality lay in government, and was said to have been inspired by the 1900 assassination of the Italian King Umberto I.
However, many I have Alaska He seems to prefer the historical name Denali:
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski KTUU said Trump's plan to bring back Mount McKinley is a “terrible idea.”
“We've already been through this with President Trump coming back and at the beginning of his first term,” she said Monday.
Murkowski said she and Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska — who originally hails from McKinley, Ohio — support the Denali name.
“(Denali) is a name that's been around for thousands of years… the tallest mountain in North America – shouldn't it have a name like 'The Great'?” Murkowski added.
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Denali, near Talkeetna, Alaska (AP Photo/Becky Buhrer, File)
In 2015, Sullivan told the Anchorage Daily News that “Denali belongs to Alaska and its citizens” and that naming rights are owned by Alaska Natives.
In a Statement to KTUU Sullivan said this week that many Alaskans prefer “the name given to the peak by the very powerful, very patriotic Athabascan people.”
Meanwhile, then-Rep. Ralph Regula, Republican of Ohio, spent decades in Congress blocking any name change from McKinley to Denali — the name from which the president's namesake hails from Canton.
Regula, who died in 2017, criticized Obama over the name change, saying he “thinks he's a dictator.”
Citing his own work introducing procedural hurdles and added language to Interior-related bills, Regula said Obama could not change such a law “with a flick of his pen.”
“Do you want to change the Ohio River?” He said sarcastically.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski speaks during a press conference. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
However, some Ohio officials have also shown respect for the will of Alaskans.
Current Lt. Governor Jon Husted told… Dayton Daily News In 2015, if Denali was what Alaskans wanted, he understood, because he didn't want Alaskans to dictate Ohio's name changes.
“So, I think we shouldn't say People in Alaska A must do in their state. “But I'm a huge fan of Canton and McKinley and I'm glad it's being talked about more,” he said at the time.
