TEXAS FLAG "The History Of"

The Texas State Flag in its current form was approved by the Texas Congress and Texas President Mirabeau B. Lamar on January 25, 1839, almost six years before Texas became a state in 1845. In 1993, the statutes concerning the flag were revisited and the official description codifying the dimensions and layout was revised. They are as follows. “ The state 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 State Flag were also stipulated as being Old Glory Red and Old Glory Blue, the same colors found in the flag of the United States.