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by ks2048 514 days ago
The Gulf is getting more attention, but the McKinley one is pretty dumb too, considering McKinley never set foot in Alaska. Although, of course, it had that name before.

Trump seems to have a thing for McKinley - he has talked about him, which is interesting because I don't consider Trump much of history buff.

McKinley was big on tariffs and territorial expansion. It was the Gilded Age of concentration of wealth and corruption. And he was assassinated in the first year of his second term.