• Miss America 1948, the 22nd Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 11, 1948. The winner, BeBe...
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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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  • competed at Miss America in 1948 and has twice won the Miss America title, in 1992 and 2001. Star Dahl-Thurston of Honolulu was crowned Miss Hawaii 2023...
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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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    garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title. Miss America: BeBe Shopp (1948), Dorothy Benham (1977), Gretchen Carlson (1989) 1st runners-up:...
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  • Miss Alabama 1950 and Miss America 1951 Heather Whitestone, Miss Alabama 1994 and Miss America 1995 Deidre Downs, Miss Alabama 2004 and Miss America 2005...
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    The Miss Maryland competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Maryland in the Miss America pageant. Kennedy Taylor was...
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  • Candidates". Miss America. "1951 Candidates". Miss America. "1949 Candidates". Miss America. "1948 Candidates". Miss America. "Miss America Timeline: 1901–1950"...
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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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  • BeBe Shopp (category Miss America 1940s delegates)
    August 17, 1930), from Hopkins, Minnesota, was Miss America in 1948. After winning Miss America 1948, Shopp used her pageant scholarship to attend the...
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  • Miss America (Madeline Joyce Frank) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Otto Binder and artist...
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    The Miss Georgia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Georgia in the Miss America pageant. Georgia has won the Miss...
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  • The Miss Washington competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Washington in the Miss America pageant. Vanessa Munson...
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  • The Miss Oklahoma competition selects a winner to compete on behalf of Oklahoma in the Miss America pageant. Miss Oklahoma has won the Miss America crown...
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  • 1963-1966 Miss Earth Canada Miss Universe Canada Miss World Canada Miss Dominion of Canada Miss Canada International Miss Universe Miss America "Miss Canada...
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  • Irma Nydia Vázquez (category Miss America 1940s delegates)
    1929 – May 2, 2019) was Puerto Rico's representative (as Miss Puerto Rico) to the 1948 Miss America pageant. Although Malen Pietrantoni started Puerto Rico's...
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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 Utah competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Utah in the Miss America competition. Two Miss Utah titleholders...
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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. Brandee...
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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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    Miss Brooks is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high-school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to...
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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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  • out in Miss America contest". The Ottawa Journal. "1948 Candidates". Miss America. "1947 Candidates". Miss America. "1946 Candidates". Miss America. "1945...
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  • Miss Mississippi is a scholarship pageant and a preliminary of Miss America. The contest began in 1934, has been held in Vicksburg since 1958, and provides...
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    The Miss Louisiana competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Louisiana in the Miss America pageant. Although no delegate...
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    Adele Parkhurst - Soprano concert singer in the 1920s. BeBe Shopp – Miss America, 1948. Courtney Dauwalter - Ultramarathon runner and former teacher. The...
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  • Miss America 1947, the 21st Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 6, 1947. Barbara Jo Walker was...
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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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  • Miss America 1949, the 23rd Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 10, 1949. The 1949 pageant marked...
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  • Miss New Jersey competition is an annual pageant held to select the representative for the state of New Jersey in the Miss America pageant. Two Miss New...
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