President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

Another McKinley fan Denali is seen from the Petersville area on Oct. 23, 2016. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News) Trump first floated the idea of renaming Denali as Mount McKinley in a White ...

William McKinley, 25th president of the United States. Universal Images Group via Getty Images file McKinley, who was born in Ohio, had no actual connection with the mountain or Alaska.

Denali: Why is Donald Trump ... Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it after ...

Donald Trump said he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president.

FILE – Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller administers the oath of office to President-elect William McKinley during his inauguration in Washington, March 4, 1897, as outgoing President Grover ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley. He also called for changing the name of the Gulf ...

The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The state’s senators prefer the Native name.

The 20,310-foot peak had been known as Denali until 1896, when a gold prospector unofficially named the peak after William McKinley in support of the then-presidential candidate.

WASHINGTON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U ...

W hen President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office to rename North America's tallest peak, known as Denali in Alaska, after President William McKinley, one ...