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American Cities, Population >50K, Named After Foreign (Excluding British) Political Figures

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What American cities, with population over 50,000, are named after foreign political figures, but excluding the many named after British political figures? No fair asking Claudius (or his rivals).

Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution. He is also the co-host of the Free Speech Unmuted podcast.