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On December 10, 1836,
President Sam Houston approved the first Texas flag.
This Texas flag, known as the "National Standard of
Texas" displayed a large golden five pointed star centered on
an azure ground. This Texas flag flew over Texas until
January 25, 1839.
A bill describing the
"Lone Star Flag", a flag that would become the second official
Texas flag, was introduced on December 28, 1838 by
Senator William H. Wharton. The Texas flag bill was, of course, referred
to committee and this committee proposed a substitute bill
including the same Texas flag design proposed by Senator
Wharton. This Texas flag bill was passed by the Texas Congress on January
21, 1839 and approved by Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar on
January 25, 1839.
Early designs of the Texas flag are attributed to
many including Joanna Troutman, Sara Dodson, Charles Bellinger
Stewart, Peter Krag and William Wharton, but it was long held
that the actual designer of the Lone Star Texas flag was not known.
Official artwork created
for the Lone Star Texas flag approved by President Lamar was drawn
by Peter Krag.
the (Texas flag) shall
consist of a blue perpendicular stripe of the width of one
third of the whole length of the flag, with a white star of
five points in the centre thereof, and two horizontal
stripes of equal breadth, the upper stripe white, the lower
red, of the length of two thirds of the whole length of the
(Texas flag).
When Texas was
admitted to the Union in 1845, the Lone Star Texas flag came along.
And so it was until 1879 when the Sixteenth Legislature
approved the "Revised Civil Statues of 1879." These revised
statutes provided that "all civil statutes of a general
nature, in force when the Revised Statutes take effect, and
which are not included herein, or which are not hereby
expressly continued in force, are hereby repealed." Since the
revised statutes included no legislation concerning the Texas
flag and did not "expressly" continue in force the 1839
law, the 1839 Texas flag law was repealed.
From the date of the
repeal, September 1, 1879 until the 1933 Flag Act, there was
no Texas flag.
The legislation adopted
in 1933, was quite particular about the Texas flag design and location of
the lone star and the colors of the Texas flag: blood
red, azure blue and white. The colors were said to impart the
"lessons of the Texas flag: bravery, loyalty and
purity." However, no standard for "blood red" or "azure blue"
existed and Texas flag manufactured within the state
varied in color and dimension.
In 1993, the statutes
concerning the Texas flag were revisited and the
official description of the Texas flag was revised.
The Texas flag consists
of a rectangle with a width to length ratio of two to three
containing: (1) a blue vertical stripe one-third the entire
length of the flag wide, and two equal horizontal stripes,
the upper stripe white, the lower red, each two-thirds the
entire length of the flag long; and (2) a white, regular
five-pointed star in the center of the blue stripe, oriented
so that one point faces upward, and of such a size that the
diameter of a circle passing through the five points of the
star is equal to three-fourths the width of the blue stripe.
The colors of the Texas flag were also stipulated as being
"Old Glory Red" and "Old Glory Blue".
Like many state flags, the Texas flag shares its colors with
the US flag. |
