According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...

But William McKinley?President Donald Trump has thrust the 25th U.S. president (1897-1901) back into the spotlight, restoring his name to the continent’s tallest mountain and calling McKinley “a very ...

(McKinley served as president from 1987 until his assassination in 1901.) The name was officially changed to Denali, as a symbolic gesture to the Koyukon people, by the Obama administration in 2015.

After McKinley’s assassination in 1901, "there was just an outcry of grief, of course, (and) that they thought: ‘We need to remember this man, let's rename that mountain in Alaska, make it ...

Mount McKinley, named after the President William McKinley in 1917, 16 years after he Republican's assassination in office, was rechristened Denali in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama ...