The Utah state flag was designed by the Utah State Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1903. It was not officially adopted until 1911 due to legal and design errors. In 1913, the flag was accidentally redesigned and adopted by the legislature. A mistake was made in 1922 and has been present on every flag since. Legislation was passed in 2011 to correct the error.
The history of the Utah state flag begins in 1903, when the governor commissioned the Utah State Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (USDR) to design a flag to be carried at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. As a result, the USDR designed a flag that consisted of the state seal of Utah embroidered on a blue background. Each member contributed one dollar to pay for the construction of the flag, and a chapter member embroidered the design on Utah silk. Due to various legal errors and design errors, the legislature did not adopt the Utah state flag until 1911. Since then, further legislative adjustments have been required due to sewing errors made during the manufacturing process both in 1913 than in 1922.
Later, in 1903, the USDR discovered that an error had been made in the design and embroidery of the state seal on the flag. At the same time, it was brought to the attention of the governor and the USDR that for a flag to be considered the state flag of Utah, the design and construction required the approval of the legislature rather than just the governor’s acceptance . Because of this, what was thought to be the state flag of Utah could only be considered the flag of the governor’s regiment. Utah was just admitted to the Union in 1896, which added to the confusion about the process. A local artist corrected the error in the state seal design, and the flag was finally recognized by the legislature as the state flag of Utah.
In 1912, another organization, the Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers, asked an Eastern company to make a custom copy of the new flag for members to present to the battleship USS Utah. The flag arrived with errors: the company had added color to part of the Seal and put a gold circle around it, making it no longer the legislature-approved flag. Rather than return the flag, the organization convinced the legislature to pass a bill allowing changes in the flag’s design to become part of the official state flag. This accidentally redesigned flag was adopted by the legislature as the state flag in 1913.
Then, in 1922, another manufacturer made a mistake that misplaced a date on the flag. Every flag since 1922 has been made with that mistake. In 2011, legislation was passed requiring flag manufacturers to correct this error on every Utah state flag.
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