Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski , Mount McKinley, to Denali, drawing the ire of legislators from President William McKinley’s native state, Ohio. Under Murkowski’s proposal, Denali鈥攁n Athabascan word meaning “the high one,” commonly used by mountaineers and Alaskans鈥攚ould become the “technically correct” name for the mountain. The proposed legslation is the latest salvo in a battle that dates back to 1975, when Alaska’s legislature passed a resolution asking the Secretary of the Interior to rename the peak. The name change was blocked by U.S. Representative Ralph Regula of Ohio until his retirement in 2009, and subsequent Ohio delegations have continued to fight it.
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