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 ...

President Donald Trump says he’s changing the official name of Alaska’s — and North America’s — tallest peak from Denali back to Mount McKinley. It’s the latest chapter in a long ...

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 ...

In 1980, the park’s name was changed to Denali National Park and Preserve, but the mountain remained McKinley. Over a span of decades, Alaska’s congressional delegation repeatedly introduced ...

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.

In Denali’s shadow, ... Then a prospector in Alaska who admired president-elect William McKinley and his support for the gold standard called it Mount McKinley in a newspaper article in 1897.

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 ...

The 20,310-foot peak had been known as Denali until 1896, when a gold prospector unofficially named the peak after William ...

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 ...