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Benson Boulevard, a major east-west thoroughfare in midtown Anchorage, was built in the 1970s and named for him. Benny Benson Memorial is located at Mile 1.4 of the Seward Highway in Seward, Alaska. On April 11, 2013, in honor of his centenary, the Alaska Legislature passed SB31, [10] which named the airport in Kodiak "Kodiak Benny Benson State ...
Mar. 11—More than 30 years before Alaska became a state, teenager Benny Benson designed its flag. For decades, officials believed Benson was 13 years old when he created the iconic design ...
In the first year after the school opened in 1926, resident Benny Benson won a competition to design the territorial flag. His design is still in use as the state flag. Benson, who was moved from the previous home in Unalaska, was from the village of Chignik. He was a 13-year-old student who won the competition out of over 700 entries.
Alaska's official flag is based on Benny Benson's design, which was submitted in a Territory-wide contest for schoolchildren sponsored by the American Legion in 1926. At that time Benny was a thirteen-year-old seventh-grader of Russian-Aleut and Swedish descent, studying at the Territorial School at Seward and a resident of the Jesse Lee ...
Inspired by Benny Benson, the real-life Alaska Native boy who designed the state flag of Alaska, Molly announces a contest to design an original flag for the Denali Trading Post. As the submissions stream in, Molly finds her hands full of designs, expectations, and worries.
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In 1927, the contest committee chose fourteen year-old orphan Benny Benson's design to represent the future flag of the Territory of Alaska. Benson, an Alaska Native, was a resident at the Jesse Lee Home for Children in Seward. Until that time, Alaskans had flown only the U.S. flag since the territory's purchase from Russia in 1867. Benson's ...
Backers of a measure aimed at repealing Alaska's ranked choice voting system scored an early, partial win in court when a judge ruled that state elections officials did not violate the law or ...