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Robert G. "Bob" Heft, born in Saginaw, Michigan, was the designer of the current American star flag as well as a designer of a submitted star flag proposal.

Career

He spent his childhood in Lancaster, Ohio, where he created the American flag as a school project After graduating from college, Heft became a high school teacher and later a college professor, and he also served as mayor of Napoleon, Ohio, for 28 years.

After retiring from teaching, he became a motivational speaker.

Flag design and adoption

The story, also repeated in his obituary, says that when he was 17 years old, he did the flag design as a high school class project

Heft originally received a Bfor the project After discussing the grade with his high school teacher, Stanley Pratt, it was agreed that if the flag design was accepted by the United States Congress, the grade would be reconsidered.

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