National Park Service handout photo dated January 11, 2011 shows Mount McKinley in Alaska. REUTERS/National Park Service/Tim Rains/Handout MANDATORY CREDIT - RTR33Q7H
The invidious pet project of one former Ohio congressman has finally reached an end: Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, with the support of President Obama, has directed the United States Board on Geographic Names to officially return the name of Alaska's Mt. McKinley to Denali, a name native peoples bestowed on America's tallest mountain long ago. This corrects a more than one-hundred-year-old error, when the name "Mt. McKinley" was popularized in a fit of political pique over the gold standard.
So what does Ohio have to do with this? And how can one congressman hold up the renaming of mountain in another state? The answers are below the fold.