Miss America 1937, the 11th Miss America pageant, was held at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Saturday, September 11, 1937. Shortly after...
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Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 18 and 28. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty...
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Delander, Miss America 1927 Jean Bartel, Miss America 1943 Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945 Marilyn Buferd, Miss America 1946 Jacque Mercer, Miss America 1949...
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Mary Ann Mobley (category Miss America 1950s delegates)
(February 17, 1937 – December 9, 2014) was an American actress, television personality, and Miss America 1959. Mobley was born in 1937 in Biloxi, Mississippi...
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ground to 1983, as well as being the place of origin for Bette Cooper, Miss America 1937. In 1925, Bertland Island gained popularity as it offered 20 rides...
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The Miss Texas competition was founded in 1937 as a scholarship contest for young women. The winner represents Texas in the Miss America pageant; three...
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The Miss North Carolina competition selects the representative for the state of North Carolina to compete in the annual Miss America competition. The competition...
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Bette Cooper (category Miss America 1930s delegates)
Cooper-Moore (August 11, 1920 – December 10, 2017) won the Miss America 1937 pageant as Miss Bertrand Island, representing an amusement park on Lake Hopatcong...
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first Miss United States pageant as taking place in 1937 with the title being award to Miss California, however, other sources point to the first Miss United...
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The Miss Tennessee competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Tennessee in the Miss America Scholarship Competition. Carley...
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The Miss Arkansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss America pageant. Arkansas has won the...
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The Miss New York scholarship competition selects the representative for the state of New York in the Miss America scholarship competition. In the fall...
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New Jersey winners have gone on to hold the title of Miss America: Bette Cooper who won in 1937 and Suzette Charles who did not win, but took over the...
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The Miss Florida competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Florida in the Miss America pageant. Florida has twice won...
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The Miss Iowa competition is the official preliminary for the state of Iowa in the Miss America Scholarship Competition. Abi Batu-Tiako of Oskaloosa was...
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The Miss Indiana competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Indiana in the Miss America Pageant. Kalyn Melham of Muncie...
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The Miss California competition selects the representative for the state of California in the Miss America competition. The pageant began in Santa Cruz...
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Sharon Ritchie (category Miss America 1950s delegates)
January 12, 1937) was Miss America in 1956. Ritchie spent her childhood in Grand Island, Nebraska, but hailed from Denver and was later crowned Miss Colorado...
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Irma Nydia Vázquez (category Miss America 1940s delegates)
(as Miss Puerto Rico) to the 1948 Miss America pageant. Although Malen Pietrantoni started Puerto Rico's annual participation in the event in 1937 as Miss...
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Marilyn Van Derbur (category Miss America 1950s delegates)
crowned Miss America 1958 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by the outgoing Miss America 1957, Marian McKnight. Marilyn Van Derbur was born on June 16, 1937, in...
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title of Miss America 2025. Yolande Betbeze, Miss Alabama 1950 and Miss America 1951 Heather Whitestone, Miss Alabama 1994 and Miss America 1995 Deidre...
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The Miss Kansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the US state of Kansas in the Miss America pageant. Kansas has won the...
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the pageant since 1937, although the state has never produced a winner. With Alaska became the latest state crowned the Miss America title, Maine is one...
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Miss Wyoming is a state-level pageant that sends winners to compete for the title of Miss America. The competition, which awards scholarships, is open...
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