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President-elect Trump this week pledged to reverse former President Obama’s 2015 decision to change the name of North America’s highest peak to Coyucon’s Athabascan name “Denali,” which means “High One” or “Great One.”
Trump made the pledge while addressing conservatives at a conference in Phoenix, noting that President William McKinley was also a Republican who believed in tariffs. He first pledged to undo Obama’s actions in August 2015, calling them “An insult to Ohio State” Where McKinley was born and raised.
In his speech in Phoenix, he also pledged to reverse Democratic efforts to rename Southern military bases named after the Confederacy, such as Fort Liberty in Fayetteville, North Carolina, which formerly bore the name of Gen. Braxton Bragg name.
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. was a swipe at the silver prospectors he encountered, who preferred Democrat William Jennings Bryan and his silver prospecting program. USD standard.
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 Historical Archives/Universal Photo Group, Getty Images)
Six months into his second term, McKinley was visiting Buffalo, New York, when anarchist laborer Leon Zorgos assassinated him in an act of goodwill. Zolgosz believes that the root of economic inequality lies in the government and was reportedly inspired by the 1900 assassination of King Umberto I of Italy.
However, many Alaskans have Seems to prefer the historic name Denali:
Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski Tell KTUU Trump’s plan to bring back Mount McKinley is a “terrible idea.”
“We already experienced this at the beginning of President Trump’s first term,” she said Monday.
Murkowski said she and Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan (D-McKinley, Ohio) both support the Denali name.
“The name (Denali) has been around for thousands of years … the tallest mountain in North America — shouldn’t it have a name like ‘The Great One’?” Murkowski added.
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Denali, near Talkeetna, Alaska (AP Photo/Becky Boller, File)
In 2015, Sullivan told the Anchorage Daily News that “Denali belongs to Alaska and its citizens” and that naming rights are held by Alaska Natives.
in a Statement to KTUU This week, Sullivan said many Alaskans prefer the name “the very tough, very strong, very patriotic Athabascan people gave the peak.”
Meanwhile, then-Rep. Ohio Republican Ralph Regula, who served in Congress for decades, blocked McKinley from changing his name to Denali — because the president of the same name was from his Canton district. .
Regula, who died in 2017, lambasted Obama for the name change, saying he “considered himself a dictator.”
Regula appeared to cite his own writings on procedural hurdles and language added to Interior-related bills, saying Obama could not change such a law “with the stroke of a pen.”
“You want to change the Ohio River?” he quipped.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski speaks at a news conference. (Drew Angler/Getty Images)
However, some Ohio officials also respect the wishes of Alaskans.
Current Lt. Gov. Jon Husted told dayton daily news In 2015, if Denali was what Alaskans wanted, he knew it in turn, because he didn’t want Alaskans to dictate a name change in Ohio.
“So, I guess we shouldn’t tell Alaskan You should do it in your own state. But I’m a big fan of Canton and McKinley, and I’m glad he’s getting talked about more,” he said at the time.
