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Flag proposal, adopted in 1913. In 1908, the Missouri Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution noticed the State did not have an official flag, and Mrs. Samuel McKnight Green appointed a committee to research, design, and secure passage of a bill for an official flag. [2]
Her original design incorporated Missouri's coat of arms and was rendered as a painted paper flag by her friend Mary Kochitzky. [5] The flag was brought to the Missouri State Capitol in 1908 and bills to adopt the flag as the official flag of Missouri were introduced by Senator Arthur L. Oliver, her nephew, in 1909 and 1911. Both bills failed ...
1.10 Missouri. 1.11 Montana. 1.12 Nevada. 1.13 New Hampshire. 1.14 New ... This is a list of U.S. state flags that have been submitted to state legislatures or have ...
Joplin is the main hub of the three-county Joplin-Miami, Missouri-Oklahoma Metro area, which is home to 210,077 people; this makes the city the fifth largest metropolitan area in Missouri. In May 2011, a violent EF5 tornado killed more than 150 people and destroyed one-third of the city.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Governor Mike Kehoe signed an Executive Order on Wednesday ordering U.S. and Missouri flags to be flown at full-staff on Monday at all state buildings and grounds in honor of ...
Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...