Henry Clay is out, Ronald Reagan is in.
The New Hampshire Senate voted 18-5 on Thursday to rename Mount Clay in the White Mountains after former President Ronald Reagan.
The bill, passed earlier by the House, goes to Gov. Craig Benson. Benson spokesman Keith Herman said the governor supports the renaming.
Mount Clay is the first peak on the ridge north of Mount Washington, the highest mountain in the Northeast. Clay is 5,533 feet high compared with Washington, which stands at 6,288 feet.
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Supporters said it is appropriate to substitute Reagan's name because Clay was never president. Clay was a statesman in the 1800s nicknamed the Great Pacificator for finding solutions that postponed the Civil War.