To be clear, President William McKinley has one of the largest grave sites of any former American president, so perhaps a mountaintop was a bit superfluous.

But this has not stopped the political outrage — manufactured, deeply felt and otherwise convenient — flowing from the state of Ohio, birthplace of the 25th president, on the heels of President Obama’s announcement on Sunday that he was changing, or in the view of many Alaskans restoring, the name of Mount McKinley to Denali.

The announcement has created rare unity between Republican and Democratic Buckeyes against Mr. Obama under the well-worn complaint about excessive executive power, and even rarer agreement from members of both parties in Alaska praising the president.

“I’m deeply disappointed in this decision,” Speaker John A. Boehner said in a news release, echoed by Representative Tim Ryan, Democrat of Ohio, who also felt the deep sting of McKinley being dissed. McKinley had never visited Alaska, perhaps in no small part because it was not even a state until 1959, in addition to his preference for staying close to home and campaigning from his front porch in Canton.