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All
the Miss Americas
1921 Margaret Gorman
Miss Washington, D.C.
1922 Mary Katherine Campbell Miss Columbus, Ohio - Won at the age of 15.
1923 Mary Katherine Campbell Miss Columbus, Ohio - Only woman to win twice.
1924 Ruth Malcomson Miss Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1925 Fay Lanphier Miss California - Was a runner up for the title in 1924.
The first to officially represent a state.
1926 Norma Smallwood Miss Oklahoma
1927 Lois Delander Miss Illinois
1928 - 1932 Miss America Pageant discontinued.
1933 Marion Bergeron Miss Connecticut
1934 Miss America Pageant was not held this year.
1935 Henrietta Leaver Miss Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Asked to forfeit her crown.
1936 Rose Coyle Miss Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1937 Bette Cooper Miss Bertrand Island, New Jersey
1938 Marilyn Meseke Miss Ohio
The first year contestants had to be between
the ages of 18-28, and had never been married,
divorced or had a marriage annulled.
1939 Patricia Donnelly Miss Michigan
1940 Frances Marie Burke Miss Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Competition moves
indoors to Convention Center.
1941 Rosemary LaPlanche Miss California
1942 Jo-Carroll Dennison Miss Texas
1943 Jean Bartel Miss California
1944 Venus Ramey Miss Washington, D.C. - The first red-haired Miss America
1945 Bess Myerson Miss New York - First scholarship winner. She was sewn into
her swimsuit.
1946 Marilyn Buferd Miss California
1947 Barbara Walker Miss Memphis, Tennessee
1948 BeBe Shopp Miss Minnesota
1949 Jacque Mercer Miss Arizona
1950 Pageant decides to move the title ahead one year. Betbeze wins in 1950 but is called Miss America 1951.
1951 Yolande Betbeze Miss Alabama
1952 Colleen Kay Hutchins Miss Utah
1953 Neva Langley Miss Georgia
1954 Evelyn Margaret Ay Miss Pennsylvania
1955 Lee Meriwether Miss California
The first time pageant is on TV.
1956 Sharon Ritchie Miss Colorado
There She Is - Miss
America is first sung.
1957 Marian McKnight Miss South Carolina
1958 Marilyn Van Derbur Miss Colorado
1959 Mary Ann Mobley Miss Mississippi
1960 Lynda Lee Mead Miss Mississippi
1961 Nancy Fleming Miss Michigan
1962 Maria Beale Fletcher Miss North Carolina
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1963 Jacquelyn Mayer Miss Ohio
1964 Donna Axum Miss Arkansas
1965 Vonda Kay Van Dyke Miss Arizona
1966 Debbie Bryant
Miss Kansas
1967 Jane Anne Jayroe Miss Oklahoma
1968 Debra Barnes Miss Kansas
1969 Judith Ford Miss Illinois
1970 Pamela Anne Eldred Miss Michigan
1971 Phyllis George Miss Texas
1972 Laurie Lea Schaefer Miss Ohio
1973 Terry Meeuwsen Miss Wisconsin
1974 Rebecca King Miss Colorado
1975 Shirley Cothran Miss Texas
1976 Tawny Godin Miss New York
1977 Dorothy Benham Miss Minnesota
1978 Susan Perkins Miss Ohio
1979 Kylene Barker Miss Virginia
1980 Cheryl Prewitt Miss Mississippi
1981 Susan Powell Miss Oklahoma - Now hosts Home
Matters, a crafts, home
decorating, and helpful hints program on The Discovery Channel.
1982 Elizabeth Ward Miss Arkansas
1983 Debra Sue Maffet Miss California
1984 Vanessa Williams Miss New York - First
African American Miss America. Only one who did not pass her crown on to a successor.
1984 Suzette Charles Miss New Jersey - Second
African American Miss America.
We
all know of the unpleasantness of 1984 . . .
1985 Sharlene Wells Miss Utah
1986 Susan Akin Miss Mississippi
1987 Kellye Cash Miss Tennessee
1988 Kaye Rafko Miss Michigan
1989 Gretchen Carlson Miss Minnesota
1990 Debbye Turner Miss Missouri - First pageant winner to officially spend her one-year reign focused on a
platform of her choice.
1991 Marjorie Vincent Miss Illinois
1992 Carolyn Sapp Miss Hawaii
1993 Leanza Cornett Miss Florida
1994 Kimberly Aiken Miss South Carolina
1995 Heather Whitestone Miss Alabama - First deaf Miss America.
1996 Shawntel Smith Miss Oklahoma
1997 Tara Dawn Holland Miss Kansas
1998 Katherine Shindle Miss Illinois - The first Miss America in 50
years
to wear a two-piece bathing suit.
1999 Nicole Johnson Miss Virginia - She wears an insulin pump at all times.
2000 Heather French Miss Kentucky
2001 Angela Perez Baraquio Miss Hawaii - The first Asian-American and the first teacher to become Miss America.
2002 Katie Harman Miss Oregon - The first Pacific Northwest
Miss America. 2003
Erika Harold Miss Illinois
2004
Ericka Dunlap Miss Florida
Even
though there have been over 70 Miss Americas, they have come from only 29
states and the the District of Columbia.
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