foraker
foraker Lexical Profile
• noun
American A prominent 17,400-foot (5,304 m) mountain in the central Alaska Range, located in Denali National Park, serving as the second-highest peak in the range and the third-highest in the United States.
"Mount Foraker stands alongside Denali, offering mountaineers a formidable technical challenge in the harsh Alaskan wilderness."
American A reference to the Foraker Act, the 1900 United States federal law that established civilian government on the island of Puerto Rico.
"The historian's lecture focused heavily on how Foraker reshaped the administrative and legal relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico."
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Word Origin & Etymology
The mountain was named in 1899 by U.S. Army Lieutenant J.S. Herron in honor of Joseph B. Foraker, a United States Senator from Ohio. The political legislation known as the Foraker Act is also named after him.
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