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The ''', France , and the United States ); the year in which the Louisiana Purchase occurred (1803); and Arkansas being the third state (after Louisiana and Missouri ) formed from the Louisiana Purchase. The flag was designed by Willie Kavanaugh Hocker of Wabbaseka, Arkansas from a field of sixty-five entries in a 1912 contest. HISTORY Around 1912, the Pine Bluff, Arkansas chapter of the Daughters Of The American Revolution (DAR) wished to present a state flag for the commissioning of the battleship USS ''Arkansas'' . When it was discovered that Arkansas did not have a state flag, the DAR chapter decided to sponsor a contest to design a flag. Hocker, a member of the Pine Bluff DAR chapter, won with a design that is similar to the current flag. Hocker designed the flag with three blue stars in the middle of the white diamond and omitted "ARKANSAS". At the request of the flag committee, chaired by the Secretary of State, Earle Hodges, Hocker added "ARKANSAS" and rearranged the stars to one on top and two on bottom. This flag was adopted by the legislature on February 26 , 1913 . http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/educational_ar_flag.html In 1923 , the legislature added a fourth star, representing the Confederate States of America. This fourth star was originally placed so that there were two stars above the state name and two below; this was to include the Confederacy alongside Spain, France, and the United States. Since this disturbed the other two meanings of the original three stars, the legislature corrected this in 1924 by placing the Confederate star above "ARKANSAS" and the original three stars below it, as it is today. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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