President Benjamin Harrison signed an Executive Order on September 4, 1890, establishing the United States Board on Geographic Names.
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In 1890 he and Thomas Corwin Mendenhall of the U.S. National Geodetic Survey campaigned to establish the United States Board on Geographic Names to create official names for locations in the United States.