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Martin Luther King Jr. There are streets named for him in at least 730 cities in the US.
And that isn’t counting the hospitals, schools and such. Yes, he did a lot of good things but that is some serious saturation.
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Not only that, but you notice how Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in virtually every urban district is a place of poverty?
Is there a major American city without a Martin Luthor King street?
Wow, I’m the first one to mention Kennedy? (John F. Not Teddy)
I’m pretty sure that every third street in Atlanta is named Peachtree.
Not a person but a place.
Ytterby, Sweden has **FOUR ** elements named for it!
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Is there a major American city without a Martin Luthor King street?
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Metropolis?
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Most Confederate leaders of course, particularly Jefferson Davis (inspiration for any number of counties, high schools, and people throughout the south in spite of the fact he was soundly hated by most southerners towards the end of the war)…<snip>…
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I was rather surprised to find out that’s what the ‘J. D.’ in J. D. Tippett stood for (the Dallas cop that Oswald supposedly killed).
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Is there a major American city without a Martin Luther King street?
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There was a thread about that, but I can’t find a link to it. :smack: :smack:
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There are a fair number of things named after some “Dawson” person in western Canada. I think he was a geographer or explorer or mapmaker or something.
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George Mercer Dawson, a geologist and surveyor and explorer and mapmaker.
If you go to Canada’s North, there’s a whooooole lot of Franklin and Mackenzie names on streets and the like.
Around Baltimore, there are a lot of Patapsco. Also, living benefactors the Meyerhoff families have built or contributed to many many places, so their names show up quite a bit.
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To be fair, Macquarie was an *extremely * significant and influential person in the development of the colony of New South Wales.
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Oh, I don’t doubt that. I was just being a little tongue in cheek there, since he appears to have named some of them himself. I mock but in jest. 
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George Mercer Dawson, a geologist and surveyor and explorer and mapmaker.
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And Dawson College in Montreal is named after his fatber.
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Is there a major American city without a Martin Luthor King street?
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I was going to say Orlando- it’s a local fable that we’re the city without one.
Then I checked my trusty streetfinder, and it turns out there is one. But it’s only about a mile long, and it’s someone unique in that nobody sells crack nearby.
*this is not a racial thing- if you ask someone who smokes crack how they find it in unfamiliar cities, they will all tell you that MLK is where the rocks are. Don’t ask how I know.
If you believe wikipedia, there are a number of places named after American Revolutionary War General “Mad” Anthony Wayne .
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If you go to Canada’s North, there’s a whooooole lot of Franklin and Mackenzie names on streets and the like.
Around Baltimore, there are a lot of Patapsco. Also, living benefactors the Meyerhoff families have built or contributed to many many places, so their names show up quite a bit.
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Mackenzie? After Bob and Doug?
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Mackenzie? After Bob and Doug?
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Alexander, an explorer.
Confusingly, the second Prime Minister of Canada was also named Alexander Mackenzie, but it’s not the same guy.
Montana had so much crap named after C. M. Russel, I up and left.
Tripler
I’m sick of his art too.
The winner has to be JFK. How many things would be named after him if he hadn’t been assassinated? He was about as successful a president as Millard Fillmore, and what was named after him?
Plus, Kennedy’s still on the half-dollar.
Lincoln. Here in IL, it’s endemic.
Reagan creep has also come here-ugh.
Columbus, Washington.
We have a Robert Frost elementary school not far from here. That gave me pause for a bit (New England poet on the south side of Chicago?) 
In southern Alberta, you can’t walk six steps without running into a Peter Lougheed Something. (He was a Premier of Alberta, and he’s still alive, at that.)
When I saw the title of this thread, I was going to nominate Robert C. Byrd. But I got beat to it…by the OP no less!
Let’s go Mountaineers!!