denali. it was only in the late 1800s when a random gold prospector from new hampshire decided to declare a new name for denali in honor of the news he had just heard that william mckinley won the republican nomination for president. william mckinley had nothing to do with that prospector or with that mountain. he never set foot on denali. he never set foot in alaska. he was from ohio. even though alaska broadly speaking has long wanted to change the name back and they even d did officially at the state level in the 1970s, the federal name mt. mckinley stuck mostly because ohio republicans insisted that it not be changed for years now. so now that president obama has gone ahead and changed it, ohio republican and house speaker john boehner says he is deeply disappointed president obama has decided to take away william mckinley's random tribute and