• Miss America 1953, the 26th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 6, 1952. Neva Jane Langley became...
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    Miss Universe 1953 was the second Miss Universe pageant, held at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California, United States on 17 July...
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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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  • World America is the official national pageant that selects the contestant from the United States to Miss World. The current Miss World America is Victoria...
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    Miss USA 1953 was the 2nd Miss USA pageant, held at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California on July 16, 1953. At the end of the event...
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  • Miss America 1954, the 27th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 12, 1953. Though four women...
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    Betty Maxwell (singer) (category Miss America 2016 delegates)
    crowned Miss America 2016 by Miss America 2015, Kira Kazantsev. She is the first Miss Georgia to be crowned Miss America since Neva Jane Langley, Miss America...
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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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    pageant. Georgia has won the Miss America crown twice - Neva Jane Langley of Lakeland, Florida who won the 1953 Miss America title, and in 2015, when Betty...
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  • Neva Jane Langley (category Miss America 1950s delegates)
    (January 25, 1933 – November 18, 2012) was an American actress and beauty queen who was crowned Miss America 1953. Langley was born in Lakeland, Florida. As...
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  • The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 contest on September 7, 1968, attended by about 200 feminists and civil rights...
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  • Miss Meyers (1949 – March 1963) was an American Quarter Horse racehorse and broodmare, the 1953 World Champion Quarter Running Horse. She won $28,725...
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  • in 1953 as a scholarship contest for young women, although women had represented Virginia in the Miss America pageant since the 1930s. Four Miss Virginia...
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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 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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  • 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 Michigan competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Michigan in the Miss America pageant. Michigan has won the...
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    Miss America. "1954 Candidates". Miss America. "1953 Candidates". Miss America. "1952 Candidates". Miss America. "Miss New Mexico Receives Crown, Sash 68...
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  • 1946 and Miss America 1946 in 1953 Lee Meriwether, Miss California 1954 and Miss America 1955 in 2008 Sharon Terrill, Miss California 1968, at Arlington...
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  • the Miss Universe title, like that of Miss America, was dated by the year following the contest, so at the time uusela's title was Miss Universe 1953. Since...
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  • Miss Indian America was a pageant from 1953 to 1989 that was part annual All-American Indian Days festival in Sheridan, Wyoming. Each contestant was assessed...
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  • Miss World America 2016 was the 8th edition of the Miss World America pageant held on July 8, 2016, at the National Harbor, Washington, D.C. Victoria...
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  • The Miss Illinois is a pageant program affiliated with Miss America, which is competition for women models representing the state of Illinois. The first...
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  • Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the entrant from United States in the Miss Universe pageant. The...
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  •  Finland Miss World 1956 Petra Schürmann,  Germany Miss World 1955 Susana Duijm,  Venezuela Miss World 1954 Antigone Costanda,  Egypt Miss World 1953 Denise...
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  • The Miss Hawaii competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the State of Hawaii in the Miss America pageant, and the name of the title...
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  • crowned Miss USA. Jennifer Dupont, Miss Louisiana USA 2000, is one of only seven women who have competed in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss America pageants...
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  • Miss America (also spelt as Ms. America) is the name of several superheroines appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first...
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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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  • Proctor Productions. Their first Miss USA victory was in 1990, and notable because Carole Gist was the first African-American to win the title. Following in...
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