Great moments in pandering: 1873, the Northern Pacific Railway renames Edwinton in the Dakota Territories after German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, as a gimmick to attract German immigrants. Bismarck is today the capital of North Dakota.
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True, but he was a sailor, not a political leader.
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Not political, but business (and not a capital): Everyone assumes that Rhinelander, WI was named after the German region. Actually, it was named after the head of a RR co, hoping to convince him to run the trains up there. Pretty sure it worked.
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