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299: 42: 283: 350:(NAVA) and the Flag Heritage Foundation. On August 28, 1981, he was elected the second Secretary-General for Congresses, ending his multiple terms as FIAV Secretary-General. Smith served in that office until he returned to the FIAV Secretary-General position on September 29, 1983. 346:(known by its French acronym FIAV) with Smith as vice-president of the Provisional Council as of September 3, 1967. In 1969, Smith moved from being FIAV Provisional Council vice-president to being the first Secretary-General of FIAV. Smith was also responsible for founding the 342:, Netherlands) in 1965. They joined Louis Mühlemann in founding the International League of Vexillologists and were members of its Governing Board on September 5, 1965, and operated until September 3, 1967. The league was replaced by the 356:
On July 5, 1991, Smith was named by the FIAV a Laureate of the Federation and left the office of FIAV Secretary-General. He was given the honor of Fellow of the Federation on July 27, 2001.
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navy flags and served as a vexillographer (flag designer) to a number of governments and organizations. In 1981, Smith was part of a committee that developed the
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At Harvard, he studied political science and received a bachelor's degree in the field in 1961. During his time at Harvard, Smith designed the
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to the Dr. Whitney Smith Flag Research Center Collection at Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
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Smith quit his full-time professorship at Boston University in 1970. By 1985, he had written 19 books.
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Whitney Smith Jr. was born on February 26, 1940, to Mildred and Whitney Smith. As a youth, he lived in
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which, after modification and addition of black and white, was adopted in 1966. It is also known as
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Smith had his first article published at age 18. By 1960, he was consulting with the
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In 2013 he transferred The Flag Research Center's library and archives to The
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to organize the First International Congress of Vexillology (
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via mail. He received his doctorate in political science at
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The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict
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political symbolism was the subject of his dissertation.
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On November 17, 2016, Smith died from complications of
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Smith wrote 27 books on the subject of flags, notably
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In 1961, Smith and colleague Gerhard Grahl co-founded
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The Flag Research Center

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