when was the pledge of allegiance made official
Pledge of Allegiance (United States) Originally composed by Captain George Thatcher Balch,[3][4][5] a Union Army Officer in the Civil War and later a teacher of patriotism in New York City Schools, the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States is an expression of allegiance to the Flag of the United States and to the republic of the United States of America. [3][4][5] The form of the pledge used today was largely devised by Francis Bellamy in 1892 and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942.[6] The official name of The Pledge of Allegiance was adopted in 1945. The last change in language came on Flag Day 1954 when the words "under God" were added.[7]
Pledge of Allegiance (United States) The Pledge of Allegiance, as it exists in its current form, was composed in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855–1931), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist,[11][12] and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850–1898). There did exist a previous version created by Rear Admiral George Balch, a veteran of the Civil War, who later become auditor of the New York Board of Education. Balch's pledge, which existed contemporaneously with the Bellamy version until the 1923 National Flag Conference, read:
President of the United States Donald Trump of New York is the 45th and current president. He assumed office on January 20, 2017.
51st state Before Alaska and Hawaii became states of the United States in 1959, the corresponding expression was "the 49th state".