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Not a backroynym, but King County, Washington retroactively changed which person named "King" is its namesake.



There was a school called "J. Edgar Hoover School", which changed so it was named after Herbert Hoover

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-26/news/940626022...


Shame that that article puts "cross-dressing" on par with "wire-tapping, Constitution-stomping, blackmailing, bully". We've come a long way, and still have a long way to go.




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