Alaska Native leaders, as well as state politicians, object that the order undoes years of work with the federal government to establish Denali as the rightful name. “Located on ...
McKinley, a Republican native of Ohio who served as the 25th president, was assassinated early in his second term in 1901 in Buffalo, New York. Alaska and Ohio have been at odds over the name ...
in honor of 25th president William McKinley, who was assassinated in 1901. But Obama in 2015 renamed it Denali — the name the local native community preferred — a decision Trump said he plans ...