February 26, 1913

The General Assembly adopted the state’s official flag: a red, white, and blue design submitted to the Daughters of the American Revolution’s design contest by Willie Kavanaugh Hocker of Wabbaseka (Jefferson County). Because the design committee had decreed that the flag ought to bear the state’s name, Hocker had assented and suggested that the three blue stars be rearranged, one above the name and two below. The design remained unchanged until 1923, when the General Assembly added a fourth star to the central diamond to represent Arkansas’s membership in the Confederate States of America.