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McKinley was a very good, maybe a great president. They took his name off Mount McKinley. That's what they do to people. President McKinley was the president that was responsible for creating a vast sum of money. That's one of the reasons that we're going to bring back the name of Mount McKinley, because I think he deserves it.
McKinley, who was born in Ohio, had no actual connection with the mountain or Alaska. His name became associated with it after William Dickey, a gold prospector in the late 1800s who was fond of ...
Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it after presidential candidate William McKinley — and kicked-off a controversy that has raged ever since.
President Trump vowed Monday to revert the name of Alaska's 20,310-foot Denali, the tallest peak in North America, to Mt. McKinley, reigniting a long-running dispute. "We will restore the name of ...
A controversial aspect of McKinley's presidency is territorial expansion and the question of imperialism. The U.S. set Cuba free and granted independence to the Philippines in 1946. Puerto Rico remains in an ambiguous status. Hawaii is a state; Guam remains a territory.
A controversial aspect of McKinley's presidency is territorial expansion and the question of imperialism; with the exception of the Philippines, granted independence in 1946, the United States retains the territories taken under McKinley. [238] The territorial expansion of 1898 is often seen by historians as the beginning of American empire. [239]
McKinley, who signed legislation in 1900 making gold the sole standard for U.S. currency, was assassinated just six months into his second term and the name Mount McKinley stuck. Alaska wasn't a state then and it would take decades before elected officials there would petition the Board on Geographic Names to return to what locals knew best.
McKinley died in 1901 at the hands of an assassin. And he was in Buffalo, N.Y., that September in part to give a speech prodding the nation in a more free-trade direction.