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Miss America

January 02, 2023

For the most recent competition, see Miss America 2023. For the upcoming competition, see Miss America 2024.
For other uses, see Miss America (disambiguation).

Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25.[1] Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is now judged on competitors' talent performances and interviews. As of 2018, there is no longer a swimsuit portion to the contest, or consideration of physical appearance.[2] Miss America travels about 20,000 miles a month, changing her location every 24 to 48 hours, touring the nation and promoting her particular platform of interest.[3] The winner is crowned by the previous year's titleholder.

Miss America
TypeScholarship pageant
PredecessorSeptember 25, 1920; 102 years ago (1920-09-25)
Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. (as The Fall Frolic)
FoundedSeptember 8, 1921; 101 years ago (1921-09-08)
Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.
Headquarters
Stamford, Connecticut
,
U.S.
Key people
Shantel Krebs
Websitewww.missamerica.org

The current Miss America is Grace Stanke of Wisconsin, who was crowned Miss America 2023 on December 15, 2022. [4]

Overview

 
Margaret Gorman, Miss America 1921

On February 1, 1919, there was a beauty pageant held in the Chu Chin Chow Ball at the Hotel des Artistes in New York City. The winner, Edith Hyde Robbins Macartney, was called "Miss America." Neither the title nor this pageant were related to the current "Miss America Pageant" which would develop a year later in Atlantic City, New Jersey.[5][6][7][8][9] Rather, the origins of the "Miss America Pageant" lie in an event entitled The Fall Frolic which was held on September 25, 1920, in Atlantic City. This event was designed to bring business to the Boardwalk: "three hundred and fifty gaily decorated rolling wicker chairs were pushed along the parade route. Three hundred and fifty men pushed the chairs. However, the main attractions were the young 'maidens' who sat in the rolling chairs, headed by a Miss Ernestine Cremona, who was dressed in a flowing white robe and represented 'Peace.'"[10]

The event was so successful that The Businessmen's League planned to repeat it the following year as a beauty pageant or a "bather's revue"[10] (to capitalize on the popularity of newspaper-based beauty contests that used photo submissions).[10] The event was scheduled to take place the week-end following Labor Day, to encourage summer visitors to stay in Atlantic City. Thus, "newspapers from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., were asked to sponsor local beauty contests. The winners would participate in the Atlantic City contest. If the local newspaper would pay for the winner's wardrobe, the Atlantic City Businessmen's League would pay for the contestant's travel to compete in the Inter-City Beauty Contest."[10] Herb Test, a "newspaperman", coined the term for the winner: "Miss America."[10] On September 8, 1921, 100,000 people gathered at the Boardwalk to watch the contestants from Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Ocean City, Camden, Newark, New York City, and Philadelphia.[10] Out of the nine contestants, the two frontrunners were Virginia Lee and Margaret Gorman. A conflict ensued when the judges disqualified 22-year-old Lee at the last minute because she was deemed to be a professional rather than an amateur like the other contestants due to the fact that she was 1) a working actress, 2) married, and 3) a friend of the competition's chief judge.[11][12][13] The 16-year-old winner from Washington, D.C., Margaret Gorman, was crowned the "Golden Mermaid" and won $100.[10]

The pageant continued consistently over the next eight decades except for the years 1928–1932, when it was temporarily shut down due to financial problems associated with the Great Depression and suggestions that it promoted "loose morals."[14] With its revival in 1933, 15-year-old Marian Bergeron won, prompting future contestants to be between the ages of 18 and 26.[14] In 1935, Lenora Slaughter was hired to "re-invent" the pageant and served for 32 years as its Director.[14] By 1938, a talent section was added to the competition, and contestants were required to have a chaperone.[14] In 1940, the title officially became "The Miss America Pageant" and the pageant was held in Atlantic City's Convention Hall.[14] In 1944, compensation for "Miss America" switched from "furs and movie contracts" to college scholarships, an idea generally credited to Jean Bartel, Miss America 1943.[14][15]

During the early years of the pageant, under the directorship of Lenora Slaughter, it became racially segregated via rule number seven that stated: "contestants must be of good health and of the white race."[16] Rule number seven was abolished in 1950.[17] Miss New York 1945, Bess Myerson, the only Jewish American winner to date, became Miss America 1945 and faced antisemitism during her time as Miss America, leading to a cutback in her official duties.[18][19][20][21][22] Although there were Native American, Latina, and Asian-American contestants, there were no African-American contestants for fifty years (African-Americans appeared in musical numbers as far back as 1923, however, when they were cast as slaves).[16][23][24]

In 1970, Cheryl Browne, Miss Iowa 1970,[25][26][27] competed as the first African-American contestant in the Miss America 1971 pageant.[28][29][30] She also participated in one of the last USO-Miss America tours in Vietnam.[29] A decade later in 1983, Miss New York (and Miss Syracuse) 1983, Vanessa Williams (the first African-American woman to win the competition as Miss America 1984), faced discrimination in response to her win and later resigned under pressure due to a scandal involving nude photographs.[31][32] Three decades after these events, Miss New York (and Miss Syracuse) 2013, Nina Davuluri, the first Indian-American woman to win the crown as Miss America 2014, faced xenophobic and racist comments in social media when she won.[31][32] Two years later at the Miss America 2016 pageant, then Miss America CEO Sam Haskell apologized to Vanessa Williams (who was serving as head judge) for what was said to her during the events of 1984.[33][34][35]

In 2018, the pageant adopted a new format, referred to as "Miss America 2.0", as part of an effort under new chairwoman Gretchen Carlson to "[evolve Miss America] in this cultural revolution." Under the new format, competitors are no longer judged on their physical appearance (resulting in the highly publicized announcement that the event would no longer include a swimsuit competition), and there is a larger focus on the competitors' "talent, passion, and ambition".[36][37][38]

History

1921–1967

Margaret Gorman, Miss District of Columbia, was declared "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America" in 1921 at the age of 16 and was recognized as the first "Miss America" when she returned to compete the next year. The contest that year was won by Mary Katherine Campbell (Miss Ohio), who won again in 1923.[39] She returned to compete a third time in 1924 but placed as first runner-up that year, and pageant rules were then amended to prevent anyone from winning more than once. Alta Sterling, competing as Miss Sioux City, was the first to represent the state of Iowa at the 1924 Miss America pageant. Sterling had the distinction of being the first Jewish contestant to compete for Miss America – one of some very notable "firsts" by Miss Iowa contestants. Beginning in 1940, Bob Russell served as the first official host of the pageant.[40] In 1941, Mifaunwy Shunatona, Miss Oklahoma, became the first Native American contestant.[41][42]

In 1945, Bess Myerson became the first Jewish-American and the first Miss New York[43] (competing as Miss New York City, a competition organized by a local radio station[20]) to win the Miss America pageant as Miss America 1945.[18][19][20][21] As the only Jewish contestant, Myerson was encouraged by the pageant directors to change her name to "Bess Meredith"[44] or "Beth Merrick",[18] but she refused.[18][44] After winning the title (and as a Jewish Miss America), Myerson received few endorsements[18][19][20][21][44] and later recalled that "I couldn't even stay in certain hotels […] there would be signs that read no coloreds, no Jews, no dogs. I felt so rejected. Here I was chosen to represent American womanhood and then America treated me like this."[44] She thus cut short her Miss America tour and instead traveled with the Anti-Defamation League. In this capacity, she spoke against discrimination in a talk entitled, "You Can't Be Beautiful and Hate."[18][19][20][21][44]

In 1948, Irma Nydia Vasquez, the first Miss Puerto Rico, became the first Latina contestant.[41][45][46] In addition, in 1948, Yun Tau Chee, the first Miss Hawaii, was also the first Asian-American contestant.[41] Miss America 1949, Jacque Mercer, was married and divorced during her reign; after this, a rule was enacted requiring Miss America contestants to sign a certification that they have never been married or pregnant.[47] Starting in 1950, although the pageant continued to be in September, the Miss America title changed to "post-dated", thus that year's pageant winner became Miss America 1951, and there was no Miss America 1950. The pageant was first televised nationally in 1954, hosted by Bob Russell.[40] Future television star Lee Meriwether was crowned Miss America 1955. It would also be the last time Russell served as host. He recommended, and was replaced by, Bert Parks, who served as the host for the second televised pageant in 1955 and stayed as host until 1979.[40][48] Television viewership peaked during the early 1960s, when it was the highest-rated program on American television.[49]

1968–2016

 
Miss America 2003 contestants

With the rise of second-wave feminism and the civil rights movement during the 1960s, the Miss America pageant became the subject of a series of protests that attacked it as sexist, racist, and part of U.S. militarism. The first such demonstration took place during the Miss America 1969 pageant held on September 7, 1968 (won by Miss Illinois 1968, Judith Ford), when about 200 members of the group New York Radical Women demonstrated as part of the Miss America protest. Bev Grant's photographs of this event have become iconic.[50] In addition, a pamphlet distributed at the protest by Robin Morgan, No More Miss America!, became a source for feminist scholarship.[51] The protest was co-sponsored by Florynce Kennedy's Media Workshop, an activist group she founded in 1966 to protest the media's representation of African-Americans, along with the feminist Jeanette Rankin Brigade and the ACLU.[52] Morgan later stated that the Miss America pageant "was chosen as a target for a number of reasons: it has always been a lily-white, racist contest; the winner tours Vietnam, entertaining the troops as a 'Murder Mascot'; the whole gimmick is one commercial shillgame to sell the sponsor's products. Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values—racism, militarism, sexism—all packaged in one ‘ideal symbol,’ a woman."[53] The protesters compared the pageant to a county fair where livestock are judged.[25][54] They thus crowned a sheep as Miss America and symbolically destroyed a number of feminine products, including false eyelashes, high-heeled shoes, curlers, hairspray, makeup, girdles, corsets, and bras.[55] Burning the contents of a trash can was suggested, but a permit was unobtainable; news media seized on the similarity between draft resisters burning draft cards and women burning their bras. In fact, there was no bra burning, nor did anyone remove her bra.[56][57] The Women's Liberation Front later demonstrated at the Miss America 1971 pageant.[28]

Miss Iowa 1970,[27] Cheryl Browne, became the first African-American contestant in the competition's history during the Miss America 1971 pageant (September 12, 1970).[25][26][28][29][30] She drew attention from reporters and from security personnel in Atlantic City who maintained a visible presence during pageant rehearsals.[29] Browne was not a finalist, however,[29] losing to future media personality, Miss Texas 1970, Phyllis George. In August 1971, Browne traveled to Vietnam with George; Miss Nevada 1970, Vicky Jo Todd; Miss New Jersey 1970, Hela Yungst; Miss Arizona 1970, Karen Shields; Miss Arkansas 1970, Donna Connelly; and Miss Texas 1970 (George's replacement), Belinda Myrick.[58] They participated in a 22-day United Service Organizations tour for American troops that began in Saigon.[29][58][59] Browne later commented that she thought "it was one of the last Miss America groups to go to Vietnam."[29] Miss Arkansas 1980, Lencola Sullivan, finished the Miss America 1981 pageant (September 6, 1980) as fourth runner-up, making her the first African American contestant to place in the top five.[41]

A few years later, Vanessa Williams (Miss New York 1983) won the title of Miss America 1984 on September 17, 1983, making her the first African American woman to wear the crown.[60] Williams later commented that she was one of five minority contestants that year, noting that ballet dancer Deneen Graham "had already had a cross burned on her front yard because she was the first black Miss North Carolina [1983]."[61] She also pointed out that "Suzette Charles was the first runner-up, and she was biracial. But when the press started, when I would go out on the – on the tour and do my appearances, and people would come up and say they never thought they'd see the day that it would happen; when people would want to shake my hand, and you'd see tears in their eyes, and they'd say, I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime – that's when, you know, it was definitely a very special honor."[61] Williams' reign as Miss America was not without its challenges and controversies, however. For the first time in pageant history, a reigning Miss America was the target of death threats and hate mail.[41][61] Williams was forced to resign seven weeks prior to the end of her time as Miss America, however, after the unauthorized publication of nude photos in Penthouse.[41][62][63][64] First runner-up, Miss New Jersey 1983, Suzette Charles replaced her for the final weeks of Williams' reign.[65] Thirty-two years after she resigned however, Vanessa Williams returned to the Miss America stage on September 13, 2015, for the Miss America 2016 pageant as head judge (where Miss Georgia 2015, Betty Cantrell, won the crown).[66][67] The pageant began with former Miss America CEO Sam Haskell issuing an apology to Williams, telling her that although "none of us currently in the organization were involved then, on behalf of today's organization, I want to apologize to you and to your mother, Miss Helen Williams. I want to apologize for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less the Miss America you are and the Miss America you always will be."[33][34][35] Suzette Charles (Williams' replacement) said in an interview with Inside Edition that she was perplexed over the apology and suggested that it was given for the purpose of ratings.[68]

In 1985, Miss Utah 1984, Sharlene Wells Hawkes, became the first foreign-born, bilingual Miss America, as she was born in Asunción, Paraguay.[69] Miss Alabama 1994, Heather Whitestone, won the 1995 pageant becoming the first deaf Miss America (she lost most of her hearing at the age of 18 months).[70][71] At the Miss America 1999 pageant held on September 19, 1998, Nicole Johnson (Miss Virginia 1998) became the first Miss America with diabetes and the first contestant to publicize an insulin pump.[72][73] Around the same time, Miss America officials announced they had lifted the ban on contestants who were divorced or had had an abortion. This rule change, however, was rescinded and Miss America CEO Robert L. Beck, who had suggested it, was fired.[74][75] Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss Hawaii 2000, was crowned Miss America 2001, thereby becoming the first Asian-American, the first Filipino-American, as well as the first teacher ever to win the pageant.[76]

A few years later, the Miss America 2005 pageant held on September 18, 2004, would be the last one televised live on ABC (which dropped the pageant after this broadcast, as it "drew a record-low 9.8 million viewers")[77] and the last one held in Atlantic City for ten years. Miss Alabama 2004, Deidre Downs, reigned as Miss America four months longer than usual as the Miss America 2006 pageant was moved to a January broadcast at the Las Vegas Strip's Theatre for the Performing Arts (Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino).[78][79] It was broadcast live on Country Music Television. After two years, the pageant moved to the TLC network.[80][81] The Miss America 2011 pageant held on January 15, 2011, showcased Miss New York 2010, Claire Buffie, (the first Miss America contestant to advocate a gay-rights platform)[82][83] and Miss Delaware 2010, Kayla Martell, (the first bald contestant).[84][85] ABC also resumed broadcasting the pageant with the 2011 competition.[86] The Miss America 2013 pageant, held on January 12, 2013, was the last one to take place in Las Vegas.[87] Miss New York 2012, Mallory Hagan, won the competition but only served for eight months as the pageant moved back to its former broadcast slot in September 2013[87][88] Miss Montana 2012, Alexis Wineman, ("America's Choice" winner) was the pageant's first autistic contestant.[89][90]

With the Miss America 2014 pageant, held on September 15, 2013, the competition returned to Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey.[87] Miss New York (Nina Davuluri) won the title of Miss America. Davuluri was also the first Indian-American and second Asian-American to win the crown.[91][92] Shortly after her win, however, Davuluri became the target of xenophobic and racist comments in social media[93][94][95] relating the proximity of the event date to the 9/11 anniversary and to anti-Indian sentiment.[93][94][96][97][98] News agencies cited tweets that misidentified her as Muslim or Arab, associated her with groups such as Al-Qaeda, and questioned why she was chosen over Miss Kansas 2013, Theresa Vail[93][94][96][99][100] (a soldier who won the "America's Choice" award and was the first contestant to display tattoos during the swimsuit competition).[101][102] Davuluri said that she was prepared for this backlash because "as Miss New York, I was called a terrorist and very similar remarks",[103][104] and Vail denounced the social media backlash, offering her support to Davuluri.[105][106] In addition, a torn ACL and MCL forced Miss Florida 2013, Myrrhanda Jones, to perform her baton routine with a decorated leg brace,[107] while Nicole Kelly (Miss Iowa 2013) was the first contestant without a forearm to compete in the pageant.[108]

Amanda Longacre, who was crowned Miss Delaware 2014 and was preparing to compete in Miss America 2015, was stripped of the title and the crown[109][110][111] because she was deemed to be too old.[109][110][111] Longacre filed a $3 million lawsuit,[109][110][111] and Miss America officials later blamed the error on state pageant officials whom, they said, "missed the age discrepancy in Longacre's submitted paperwork."[109][110][111] Miss New York 2014 (Kira Kazantsev) eventually won the title of Miss America 2015, making New York the first state to produce a winner for three consecutive years.[112][113]

In September 2014, comedian John Oliver ran a segment on his show, Last Week Tonight, that investigated the Miss America Organization's claim that it is "the world's largest provider of scholarships for women."[114] Oliver's team, which included four researchers with journalism backgrounds,[115] collected and analyzed the organization's state and federal tax forms to find that the organization's scholarship program only distributes a small fraction of its claimed "$45 million made available annually".[116] Oliver said that at the national level, the Miss America Organization and Miss America Foundation together spent only $482,000 in cash scholarships in 2012.[114] Oliver found that at the state level, the Miss Alabama pageant claimed that it had provided $2,592,000 in scholarships to Troy University despite not actually distributing any such scholarships.[117] The pageant appeared to multiply the value of a single available scholarship by the number of contestants theoretically eligible for it, while using the term "provided" in a way that did not mean "distributed."[118] The Miss America Organization responded by stating that Oliver affirmed that it provides the most scholarships to women and that the $45 million figure was based on all scholarships made available whether or not they are accepted.[119] In February 2015, Sharon Pearce announced that she was stepping down from her role as President of the Miss America Organization. At that time, former CEO Sam Haskell was named Executive Chairman of the Miss America Organization, retained the title of CEO, and assumed all of Pearce's responsibilities.[120] In addition, Miss America 2014, Nina Davuluri, was appointed one of the new trustees to the Miss America Foundation.[121] In September 2015, Miss America officials announced that the organization grants $5.5 million in scholarships,[122] a number which still includes adding together offers of in-kind tuition waivers from multiple schools when a contestant could accept one at most.[123]

On March 24, 2016, the Miss America Organization announced a contract renewal with ABC to continue carrying the pageant for the next three years to the 2019 edition.[124]

In June 2016, Erin O'Flaherty was crowned Miss Missouri, becoming the first openly lesbian Miss America contestant.[125]

2017–present

In late December 2017, HuffPost published an article exposing derogatory emails sent and received by CEO Sam Haskell, board members Tammy Haddad and Lynn Weidner, and lead writer Lewis Friedman. The emails, sent between 2014 and 2017, featured instances of expletive name-calling and unprofessional comments. The comments were often sexual or violent in nature and targeted former Miss America winners, notably Mallory Hagan and Katherine Shindle, both of whom joined 47 other former Miss Americas (including all Miss Americas from 1988 to 2017)[126] in signing a joint open letter calling for the firing or resignation of all involved.[127] On December 22, the Miss America Organization (MAO) released statements to USA Today, saying that it was made aware of concerns several months prior. They stated that the organization does not "condone the use of inappropriate language" and reported that its investigation had determined that Haskell was under "unreasonable distress resulting from intense attacks on his family from disgruntled stakeholders". The organization also reported that its relationship with Friedman had been terminated. Haskell explained that attacks on his character impaired his judgment when responding to the emails.[128] Miss America's board of directors also suspended Haskell, who released a statement labeling the HuffPost article "unkind and untrue".[126][129] Hagan and Shindle criticized the decision to suspend Haskell, rather than fire him, as inadequate.[130] The following day, the President of Miss America, Josh Randle; executive chairwoman Lynn Weidner; and Haskell all resigned.[131] The scandal prompted the pageant's producer, Dick Clark Productions, to cut ties, and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) announced that it was reconsidering its contract with Miss America, with its executive director Chris Howard describing the scandal as "troubling", and both Frank Gilliam, incoming mayor of Atlantic City, and State Senator Colin Bell called for CRDA to end its relationship with Miss America.[132] On December 24, Haddad also resigned.[133]

In January 2018, Gretchen Carlson, who won the Miss America pageant in 1989, was elected as the new chairwoman of the organization, becoming the first former Miss America to serve as its leader. Katherine Shindle, Miss America 1998, was also appointed to the board alongside fellow Miss America winners, Heather French Henry (2000) and Laura Kaeppeler (2012).[134] This move led to a number of changes. In June 2018, there was an announcement that Miss America contestants would no longer be judged based on their physical appearance. Thus, the national Miss America event would be considered a competition, rather than a beauty pageant, and the titleholders would now be candidates, rather than contestants.[38][135][37][36][136] The swimsuit competition was replaced with state titleholders participating in a live interactive session with the judges.[135][37][36] The evening gown competition was dropped; the contestants chose clothing "that makes them feel confident, expresses their personal style, and shows how they hope to advance the role of Miss America."[38][137] In interviews, Carlson emphasized the organization's desire to be more welcoming, "open, transparent, [and] inclusive to women," and to prioritize displaying the talent and scholarship in the contestants.[38][138] The new board of directors increased the maximum age of titleholders to 25 years old, from 24.[139] Therefore, contestants cannot be older than 25 years old on December 31 in the calendar year of their state competition.[139]

In August 2018, Miss America 2018 Cara Mund gave an interview to The Press of Atlantic City in which she stated that it had "been a tough year."[140] She then wrote an open letter to former Miss Americas a few weeks later, in order to explain her comments. In the letter she states that the current leadership had "silenced me, reduced me, marginalized me, and essentially erased me in my role as Miss America." She also stated that her "voice is not heard nor wanted by our current leadership …nor do they have any interest in knowing who I am and how my experiences relate to positioning the organization for the future."[141][142][143] Carlson denied Mund's claims.[144] However, at the time the Miss America 2019 competition began, 46 of 51 state organizations (as well as 23 former Miss America winners) had signed a petition calling for the resignation of Carlson and CEO, Regina Hopper, from the Miss America Organization.[145] The states who had not signed were Arkansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, and Vermont.[145]

On September 5, 2018, Fox Rothschild LLP, a law firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, filed a breach-of-contract suit against the MAO for failing to pay nearly $100,000 for legal services.[146] Court fillings from October 26, 2018 ordered MAO to pay Fox Rothschild LLP $98,206.90 with interest for their unpaid legal bills.[147] The Miss America Organization reported in December 2018 that a settlement had been made with Fox Rothschild LLP.[147] From 2011 to 2016 (with the exception of 2014), MAO's tax fillings reveal that the organization was operating with a negative net income.[147]

In the fall of 2018, MAO terminated licenses from Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia.[148][149] The leadership of the Miss Colorado organization quit in protest.[149] With license termination the state organization cannot "claim to be affiliated with the Miss America Organization and must...turn over bank accounts with scholarship money to the national organization."[148] On December 22, 2018; MAO awarded the license for the Miss Georgia organization to Trina Pruitt.[150] On December 26, 2018; MAO also reinstated the license for the Miss New Jersey organization for one year, contingent on leadership changes and recruitment of new sponsors and board members.[151]

In December 2018, state organizations from Georgia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia, along with Jennifer Vaden Barth (former titleholder and former MAO board member), filed a lawsuit requesting the actions of Carlson and Hopper be voided, citing an "illegal and bad-faith takeover of the MAO, beginning in January 2018."[152][153] The court date for this suit is set for January 25, 2019.[153]

On June 5, 2019, Miss South Dakota 1997 and former South Dakota Secretary of State, Shantel Krebs, was unanimously elected to chairwoman of the Miss America Organization Board of Directors, succeeding Carlson.[154] Krebs had been a member of the organization's board since October 2018.[154] Carlson will "remain involved as an advisor to the Miss America Organization Board."[154]

In Summer 2019, Miss America announced the contest would move out of Atlantic City. The December 19, 2019 event took place at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. The broadcast moved from ABC to NBC, and was live streamed for the first time.[155] On May 8, 2020, the organization announced its next competition, originally slated for December 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The postponement will also include revised eligibility to be coordinated with state qualifying organizations to allow competitors who would usually age out to remain in consideration.[156]

Winners

Recent titleholders

Main article: List of Miss America titleholders

Hosts

Present

Past

See also

Further reading and viewing

Archives and collections

Books

Documentaries

References

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External links

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January 02, 2023
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For the most recent competition see Miss America 2023 For the upcoming competition see Miss America 2024 For other uses see Miss America disambiguation Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25 1 Originating in 1921 as a bathing beauty revue the contest is now judged on competitors talent performances and interviews As of 2018 there is no longer a swimsuit portion to the contest or consideration of physical appearance 2 Miss America travels about 20 000 miles a month changing her location every 24 to 48 hours touring the nation and promoting her particular platform of interest 3 The winner is crowned by the previous year s titleholder Miss AmericaTypeScholarship pageantPredecessorSeptember 25 1920 102 years ago 1920 09 25 Atlantic City New Jersey U S as The Fall Frolic FoundedSeptember 8 1921 101 years ago 1921 09 08 Atlantic City New Jersey U S HeadquartersStamford Connecticut U S Key peopleShantel KrebsWebsitewww wbr missamerica wbr orgThe current Miss America is Grace Stanke of Wisconsin who was crowned Miss America 2023 on December 15 2022 4 Contents 1 Overview 2 History 2 1 1921 1967 2 2 1968 2016 2 3 2017 present 3 Winners 3 1 Recent titleholders 4 Hosts 4 1 Present 4 2 Past 5 See also 6 Further reading and viewing 6 1 Archives and collections 6 2 Books 6 3 Documentaries 7 References 8 External linksOverview Edit Margaret Gorman Miss America 1921 On February 1 1919 there was a beauty pageant held in the Chu Chin Chow Ball at the Hotel des Artistes in New York City The winner Edith Hyde Robbins Macartney was called Miss America Neither the title nor this pageant were related to the current Miss America Pageant which would develop a year later in Atlantic City New Jersey 5 6 7 8 9 Rather the origins of the Miss America Pageant lie in an event entitled The Fall Frolic which was held on September 25 1920 in Atlantic City This event was designed to bring business to the Boardwalk three hundred and fifty gaily decorated rolling wicker chairs were pushed along the parade route Three hundred and fifty men pushed the chairs However the main attractions were the young maidens who sat in the rolling chairs headed by a Miss Ernestine Cremona who was dressed in a flowing white robe and represented Peace 10 The event was so successful that The Businessmen s League planned to repeat it the following year as a beauty pageant or a bather s revue 10 to capitalize on the popularity of newspaper based beauty contests that used photo submissions 10 The event was scheduled to take place the week end following Labor Day to encourage summer visitors to stay in Atlantic City Thus newspapers from Pittsburgh to Washington D C were asked to sponsor local beauty contests The winners would participate in the Atlantic City contest If the local newspaper would pay for the winner s wardrobe the Atlantic City Businessmen s League would pay for the contestant s travel to compete in the Inter City Beauty Contest 10 Herb Test a newspaperman coined the term for the winner Miss America 10 On September 8 1921 100 000 people gathered at the Boardwalk to watch the contestants from Washington D C Baltimore Pittsburgh Harrisburg Ocean City Camden Newark New York City and Philadelphia 10 Out of the nine contestants the two frontrunners were Virginia Lee and Margaret Gorman A conflict ensued when the judges disqualified 22 year old Lee at the last minute because she was deemed to be a professional rather than an amateur like the other contestants due to the fact that she was 1 a working actress 2 married and 3 a friend of the competition s chief judge 11 12 13 The 16 year old winner from Washington D C Margaret Gorman was crowned the Golden Mermaid and won 100 10 The pageant continued consistently over the next eight decades except for the years 1928 1932 when it was temporarily shut down due to financial problems associated with the Great Depression and suggestions that it promoted loose morals 14 With its revival in 1933 15 year old Marian Bergeron won prompting future contestants to be between the ages of 18 and 26 14 In 1935 Lenora Slaughter was hired to re invent the pageant and served for 32 years as its Director 14 By 1938 a talent section was added to the competition and contestants were required to have a chaperone 14 In 1940 the title officially became The Miss America Pageant and the pageant was held in Atlantic City s Convention Hall 14 In 1944 compensation for Miss America switched from furs and movie contracts to college scholarships an idea generally credited to Jean Bartel Miss America 1943 14 15 During the early years of the pageant under the directorship of Lenora Slaughter it became racially segregated via rule number seven that stated contestants must be of good health and of the white race 16 Rule number seven was abolished in 1950 17 Miss New York 1945 Bess Myerson the only Jewish American winner to date became Miss America 1945 and faced antisemitism during her time as Miss America leading to a cutback in her official duties 18 19 20 21 22 Although there were Native American Latina and Asian American contestants there were no African American contestants for fifty years African Americans appeared in musical numbers as far back as 1923 however when they were cast as slaves 16 23 24 In 1970 Cheryl Browne Miss Iowa 1970 25 26 27 competed as the first African American contestant in the Miss America 1971 pageant 28 29 30 She also participated in one of the last USO Miss America tours in Vietnam 29 A decade later in 1983 Miss New York and Miss Syracuse 1983 Vanessa Williams the first African American woman to win the competition as Miss America 1984 faced discrimination in response to her win and later resigned under pressure due to a scandal involving nude photographs 31 32 Three decades after these events Miss New York and Miss Syracuse 2013 Nina Davuluri the first Indian American woman to win the crown as Miss America 2014 faced xenophobic and racist comments in social media when she won 31 32 Two years later at the Miss America 2016 pageant then Miss America CEO Sam Haskell apologized to Vanessa Williams who was serving as head judge for what was said to her during the events of 1984 33 34 35 In 2018 the pageant adopted a new format referred to as Miss America 2 0 as part of an effort under new chairwoman Gretchen Carlson to evolve Miss America in this cultural revolution Under the new format competitors are no longer judged on their physical appearance resulting in the highly publicized announcement that the event would no longer include a swimsuit competition and there is a larger focus on the competitors talent passion and ambition 36 37 38 History Edit1921 1967 Edit Margaret Gorman Miss District of Columbia was declared The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America in 1921 at the age of 16 and was recognized as the first Miss America when she returned to compete the next year The contest that year was won by Mary Katherine Campbell Miss Ohio who won again in 1923 39 She returned to compete a third time in 1924 but placed as first runner up that year and pageant rules were then amended to prevent anyone from winning more than once Alta Sterling competing as Miss Sioux City was the first to represent the state of Iowa at the 1924 Miss America pageant Sterling had the distinction of being the first Jewish contestant to compete for Miss America one of some very notable firsts by Miss Iowa contestants Beginning in 1940 Bob Russell served as the first official host of the pageant 40 In 1941 Mifaunwy Shunatona Miss Oklahoma became the first Native American contestant 41 42 In 1945 Bess Myerson became the first Jewish American and the first Miss New York 43 competing as Miss New York City a competition organized by a local radio station 20 to win the Miss America pageant as Miss America 1945 18 19 20 21 As the only Jewish contestant Myerson was encouraged by the pageant directors to change her name to Bess Meredith 44 or Beth Merrick 18 but she refused 18 44 After winning the title and as a Jewish Miss America Myerson received few endorsements 18 19 20 21 44 and later recalled that I couldn t even stay in certain hotels there would be signs that read no coloreds no Jews no dogs I felt so rejected Here I was chosen to represent American womanhood and then America treated me like this 44 She thus cut short her Miss America tour and instead traveled with the Anti Defamation League In this capacity she spoke against discrimination in a talk entitled You Can t Be Beautiful and Hate 18 19 20 21 44 In 1948 Irma Nydia Vasquez the first Miss Puerto Rico became the first Latina contestant 41 45 46 In addition in 1948 Yun Tau Chee the first Miss Hawaii was also the first Asian American contestant 41 Miss America 1949 Jacque Mercer was married and divorced during her reign after this a rule was enacted requiring Miss America contestants to sign a certification that they have never been married or pregnant 47 Starting in 1950 although the pageant continued to be in September the Miss America title changed to post dated thus that year s pageant winner became Miss America 1951 and there was no Miss America 1950 The pageant was first televised nationally in 1954 hosted by Bob Russell 40 Future television star Lee Meriwether was crowned Miss America 1955 It would also be the last time Russell served as host He recommended and was replaced by Bert Parks who served as the host for the second televised pageant in 1955 and stayed as host until 1979 40 48 Television viewership peaked during the early 1960s when it was the highest rated program on American television 49 1968 2016 Edit Miss America 2003 contestants With the rise of second wave feminism and the civil rights movement during the 1960s the Miss America pageant became the subject of a series of protests that attacked it as sexist racist and part of U S militarism The first such demonstration took place during the Miss America 1969 pageant held on September 7 1968 won by Miss Illinois 1968 Judith Ford when about 200 members of the group New York Radical Women demonstrated as part of the Miss America protest Bev Grant s photographs of this event have become iconic 50 In addition a pamphlet distributed at the protest by Robin Morgan No More Miss America became a source for feminist scholarship 51 The protest was co sponsored by Florynce Kennedy s Media Workshop an activist group she founded in 1966 to protest the media s representation of African Americans along with the feminist Jeanette Rankin Brigade and the ACLU 52 Morgan later stated that the Miss America pageant was chosen as a target for a number of reasons it has always been a lily white racist contest the winner tours Vietnam entertaining the troops as a Murder Mascot the whole gimmick is one commercial shillgame to sell the sponsor s products Where else could one find such a perfect combination of American values racism militarism sexism all packaged in one ideal symbol a woman 53 The protesters compared the pageant to a county fair where livestock are judged 25 54 They thus crowned a sheep as Miss America and symbolically destroyed a number of feminine products including false eyelashes high heeled shoes curlers hairspray makeup girdles corsets and bras 55 Burning the contents of a trash can was suggested but a permit was unobtainable news media seized on the similarity between draft resisters burning draft cards and women burning their bras In fact there was no bra burning nor did anyone remove her bra 56 57 The Women s Liberation Front later demonstrated at the Miss America 1971 pageant 28 Miss Iowa 1970 27 Cheryl Browne became the first African American contestant in the competition s history during the Miss America 1971 pageant September 12 1970 25 26 28 29 30 She drew attention from reporters and from security personnel in Atlantic City who maintained a visible presence during pageant rehearsals 29 Browne was not a finalist however 29 losing to future media personality Miss Texas 1970 Phyllis George In August 1971 Browne traveled to Vietnam with George Miss Nevada 1970 Vicky Jo Todd Miss New Jersey 1970 Hela Yungst Miss Arizona 1970 Karen Shields Miss Arkansas 1970 Donna Connelly and Miss Texas 1970 George s replacement Belinda Myrick 58 They participated in a 22 day United Service Organizations tour for American troops that began in Saigon 29 58 59 Browne later commented that she thought it was one of the last Miss America groups to go to Vietnam 29 Miss Arkansas 1980 Lencola Sullivan finished the Miss America 1981 pageant September 6 1980 as fourth runner up making her the first African American contestant to place in the top five 41 A few years later Vanessa Williams Miss New York 1983 won the title of Miss America 1984 on September 17 1983 making her the first African American woman to wear the crown 60 Williams later commented that she was one of five minority contestants that year noting that ballet dancer Deneen Graham had already had a cross burned on her front yard because she was the first black Miss North Carolina 1983 61 She also pointed out that Suzette Charles was the first runner up and she was biracial But when the press started when I would go out on the on the tour and do my appearances and people would come up and say they never thought they d see the day that it would happen when people would want to shake my hand and you d see tears in their eyes and they d say I never thought I d see it in my lifetime that s when you know it was definitely a very special honor 61 Williams reign as Miss America was not without its challenges and controversies however For the first time in pageant history a reigning Miss America was the target of death threats and hate mail 41 61 Williams was forced to resign seven weeks prior to the end of her time as Miss America however after the unauthorized publication of nude photos in Penthouse 41 62 63 64 First runner up Miss New Jersey 1983 Suzette Charles replaced her for the final weeks of Williams reign 65 Thirty two years after she resigned however Vanessa Williams returned to the Miss America stage on September 13 2015 for the Miss America 2016 pageant as head judge where Miss Georgia 2015 Betty Cantrell won the crown 66 67 The pageant began with former Miss America CEO Sam Haskell issuing an apology to Williams telling her that although none of us currently in the organization were involved then on behalf of today s organization I want to apologize to you and to your mother Miss Helen Williams I want to apologize for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less the Miss America you are and the Miss America you always will be 33 34 35 Suzette Charles Williams replacement said in an interview with Inside Edition that she was perplexed over the apology and suggested that it was given for the purpose of ratings 68 In 1985 Miss Utah 1984 Sharlene Wells Hawkes became the first foreign born bilingual Miss America as she was born in Asuncion Paraguay 69 Miss Alabama 1994 Heather Whitestone won the 1995 pageant becoming the first deaf Miss America she lost most of her hearing at the age of 18 months 70 71 At the Miss America 1999 pageant held on September 19 1998 Nicole Johnson Miss Virginia 1998 became the first Miss America with diabetes and the first contestant to publicize an insulin pump 72 73 Around the same time Miss America officials announced they had lifted the ban on contestants who were divorced or had had an abortion This rule change however was rescinded and Miss America CEO Robert L Beck who had suggested it was fired 74 75 Angela Perez Baraquio Miss Hawaii 2000 was crowned Miss America 2001 thereby becoming the first Asian American the first Filipino American as well as the first teacher ever to win the pageant 76 A few years later the Miss America 2005 pageant held on September 18 2004 would be the last one televised live on ABC which dropped the pageant after this broadcast as it drew a record low 9 8 million viewers 77 and the last one held in Atlantic City for ten years Miss Alabama 2004 Deidre Downs reigned as Miss America four months longer than usual as the Miss America 2006 pageant was moved to a January broadcast at the Las Vegas Strip s Theatre for the Performing Arts Planet Hollywood Resort amp Casino 78 79 It was broadcast live on Country Music Television After two years the pageant moved to the TLC network 80 81 The Miss America 2011 pageant held on January 15 2011 showcased Miss New York 2010 Claire Buffie the first Miss America contestant to advocate a gay rights platform 82 83 and Miss Delaware 2010 Kayla Martell the first bald contestant 84 85 ABC also resumed broadcasting the pageant with the 2011 competition 86 The Miss America 2013 pageant held on January 12 2013 was the last one to take place in Las Vegas 87 Miss New York 2012 Mallory Hagan won the competition but only served for eight months as the pageant moved back to its former broadcast slot in September 2013 87 88 Miss Montana 2012 Alexis Wineman America s Choice winner was the pageant s first autistic contestant 89 90 With the Miss America 2014 pageant held on September 15 2013 the competition returned to Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City New Jersey 87 Miss New York Nina Davuluri won the title of Miss America Davuluri was also the first Indian American and second Asian American to win the crown 91 92 Shortly after her win however Davuluri became the target of xenophobic and racist comments in social media 93 94 95 relating the proximity of the event date to the 9 11 anniversary and to anti Indian sentiment 93 94 96 97 98 News agencies cited tweets that misidentified her as Muslim or Arab associated her with groups such as Al Qaeda and questioned why she was chosen over Miss Kansas 2013 Theresa Vail 93 94 96 99 100 a soldier who won the America s Choice award and was the first contestant to display tattoos during the swimsuit competition 101 102 Davuluri said that she was prepared for this backlash because as Miss New York I was called a terrorist and very similar remarks 103 104 and Vail denounced the social media backlash offering her support to Davuluri 105 106 In addition a torn ACL and MCL forced Miss Florida 2013 Myrrhanda Jones to perform her baton routine with a decorated leg brace 107 while Nicole Kelly Miss Iowa 2013 was the first contestant without a forearm to compete in the pageant 108 Amanda Longacre who was crowned Miss Delaware 2014 and was preparing to compete in Miss America 2015 was stripped of the title and the crown 109 110 111 because she was deemed to be too old 109 110 111 Longacre filed a 3 million lawsuit 109 110 111 and Miss America officials later blamed the error on state pageant officials whom they said missed the age discrepancy in Longacre s submitted paperwork 109 110 111 Miss New York 2014 Kira Kazantsev eventually won the title of Miss America 2015 making New York the first state to produce a winner for three consecutive years 112 113 In September 2014 comedian John Oliver ran a segment on his show Last Week Tonight that investigated the Miss America Organization s claim that it is the world s largest provider of scholarships for women 114 Oliver s team which included four researchers with journalism backgrounds 115 collected and analyzed the organization s state and federal tax forms to find that the organization s scholarship program only distributes a small fraction of its claimed 45 million made available annually 116 Oliver said that at the national level the Miss America Organization and Miss America Foundation together spent only 482 000 in cash scholarships in 2012 114 Oliver found that at the state level the Miss Alabama pageant claimed that it had provided 2 592 000 in scholarships to Troy University despite not actually distributing any such scholarships 117 The pageant appeared to multiply the value of a single available scholarship by the number of contestants theoretically eligible for it while using the term provided in a way that did not mean distributed 118 The Miss America Organization responded by stating that Oliver affirmed that it provides the most scholarships to women and that the 45 million figure was based on all scholarships made available whether or not they are accepted 119 In February 2015 Sharon Pearce announced that she was stepping down from her role as President of the Miss America Organization At that time former CEO Sam Haskell was named Executive Chairman of the Miss America Organization retained the title of CEO and assumed all of Pearce s responsibilities 120 In addition Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri was appointed one of the new trustees to the Miss America Foundation 121 In September 2015 Miss America officials announced that the organization grants 5 5 million in scholarships 122 a number which still includes adding together offers of in kind tuition waivers from multiple schools when a contestant could accept one at most 123 On March 24 2016 the Miss America Organization announced a contract renewal with ABC to continue carrying the pageant for the next three years to the 2019 edition 124 In June 2016 Erin O Flaherty was crowned Miss Missouri becoming the first openly lesbian Miss America contestant 125 2017 present Edit In late December 2017 HuffPost published an article exposing derogatory emails sent and received by CEO Sam Haskell board members Tammy Haddad and Lynn Weidner and lead writer Lewis Friedman The emails sent between 2014 and 2017 featured instances of expletive name calling and unprofessional comments The comments were often sexual or violent in nature and targeted former Miss America winners notably Mallory Hagan and Katherine Shindle both of whom joined 47 other former Miss Americas including all Miss Americas from 1988 to 2017 126 in signing a joint open letter calling for the firing or resignation of all involved 127 On December 22 the Miss America Organization MAO released statements to USA Today saying that it was made aware of concerns several months prior They stated that the organization does not condone the use of inappropriate language and reported that its investigation had determined that Haskell was under unreasonable distress resulting from intense attacks on his family from disgruntled stakeholders The organization also reported that its relationship with Friedman had been terminated Haskell explained that attacks on his character impaired his judgment when responding to the emails 128 Miss America s board of directors also suspended Haskell who released a statement labeling the HuffPost article unkind and untrue 126 129 Hagan and Shindle criticized the decision to suspend Haskell rather than fire him as inadequate 130 The following day the President of Miss America Josh Randle executive chairwoman Lynn Weidner and Haskell all resigned 131 The scandal prompted the pageant s producer Dick Clark Productions to cut ties and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority CRDA announced that it was reconsidering its contract with Miss America with its executive director Chris Howard describing the scandal as troubling and both Frank Gilliam incoming mayor of Atlantic City and State Senator Colin Bell called for CRDA to end its relationship with Miss America 132 On December 24 Haddad also resigned 133 In January 2018 Gretchen Carlson who won the Miss America pageant in 1989 was elected as the new chairwoman of the organization becoming the first former Miss America to serve as its leader Katherine Shindle Miss America 1998 was also appointed to the board alongside fellow Miss America winners Heather French Henry 2000 and Laura Kaeppeler 2012 134 This move led to a number of changes In June 2018 there was an announcement that Miss America contestants would no longer be judged based on their physical appearance Thus the national Miss America event would be considered a competition rather than a beauty pageant and the titleholders would now be candidates rather than contestants 38 135 37 36 136 The swimsuit competition was replaced with state titleholders participating in a live interactive session with the judges 135 37 36 The evening gown competition was dropped the contestants chose clothing that makes them feel confident expresses their personal style and shows how they hope to advance the role of Miss America 38 137 In interviews Carlson emphasized the organization s desire to be more welcoming open transparent and inclusive to women and to prioritize displaying the talent and scholarship in the contestants 38 138 The new board of directors increased the maximum age of titleholders to 25 years old from 24 139 Therefore contestants cannot be older than 25 years old on December 31 in the calendar year of their state competition 139 In August 2018 Miss America 2018 Cara Mund gave an interview to The Press of Atlantic City in which she stated that it had been a tough year 140 She then wrote an open letter to former Miss Americas a few weeks later in order to explain her comments In the letter she states that the current leadership had silenced me reduced me marginalized me and essentially erased me in my role as Miss America She also stated that her voice is not heard nor wanted by our current leadership nor do they have any interest in knowing who I am and how my experiences relate to positioning the organization for the future 141 142 143 Carlson denied Mund s claims 144 However at the time the Miss America 2019 competition began 46 of 51 state organizations as well as 23 former Miss America winners had signed a petition calling for the resignation of Carlson and CEO Regina Hopper from the Miss America Organization 145 The states who had not signed were Arkansas Kentucky Minnesota Nevada and Vermont 145 On September 5 2018 Fox Rothschild LLP a law firm based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania filed a breach of contract suit against the MAO for failing to pay nearly 100 000 for legal services 146 Court fillings from October 26 2018 ordered MAO to pay Fox Rothschild LLP 98 206 90 with interest for their unpaid legal bills 147 The Miss America Organization reported in December 2018 that a settlement had been made with Fox Rothschild LLP 147 From 2011 to 2016 with the exception of 2014 MAO s tax fillings reveal that the organization was operating with a negative net income 147 In the fall of 2018 MAO terminated licenses from Florida Georgia New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Tennessee and West Virginia 148 149 The leadership of the Miss Colorado organization quit in protest 149 With license termination the state organization cannot claim to be affiliated with the Miss America Organization and must turn over bank accounts with scholarship money to the national organization 148 On December 22 2018 MAO awarded the license for the Miss Georgia organization to Trina Pruitt 150 On December 26 2018 MAO also reinstated the license for the Miss New Jersey organization for one year contingent on leadership changes and recruitment of new sponsors and board members 151 In December 2018 state organizations from Georgia Pennsylvania Tennessee and West Virginia along with Jennifer Vaden Barth former titleholder and former MAO board member filed a lawsuit requesting the actions of Carlson and Hopper be voided citing an illegal and bad faith takeover of the MAO beginning in January 2018 152 153 The court date for this suit is set for January 25 2019 153 On June 5 2019 Miss South Dakota 1997 and former South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs was unanimously elected to chairwoman of the Miss America Organization Board of Directors succeeding Carlson 154 Krebs had been a member of the organization s board since October 2018 154 Carlson will remain involved as an advisor to the Miss America Organization Board 154 In Summer 2019 Miss America announced the contest would move out of Atlantic City The December 19 2019 event took place at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville Connecticut The broadcast moved from ABC to NBC and was live streamed for the first time 155 On May 8 2020 the organization announced its next competition originally slated for December 2020 was postponed due to the COVID 19 pandemic The postponement will also include revised eligibility to be coordinated with state qualifying organizations to allow competitors who would usually age out to remain in consideration 156 Winners Edit Miss America 2019 Nia Franklin Recent titleholders Edit Main article List of Miss America titleholders Year Name State2023 Grace Stanke 157 Wisconsin2022 Emma Broyles 158 Alaska2020 Camille Schrier 159 Virginia2019 Nia Franklin 160 New York2018 Cara Mund 161 North DakotaHosts EditPresent Edit Laura Rutledge 2023Past Edit Nina Davuluri 2022 Ericka Dunlap 2022 Kit Hoover 2020 Mario Lopez 2007 2009 2010 2020 162 163 Carrie Ann Inaba 2019 164 Ross Mathews 2019 164 Chris Harrison 2004 2005 2011 2018 165 166 167 168 Sage Steele 2017 2018 168 Brooke Burke 2011 2013 2016 165 169 Lara Spencer 2014 2015 166 167 Mark Steines 2008 170 James Denton 2006 170 Tom Bergeron 2003 170 Wayne Brady 2002 170 Tony Danza 2001 170 Donny and Marie Osmond 1999 2000 170 known collectively as Donny amp Marie Boomer Esiason and Meredith Vieira 1998 170 Eva LaRue and John Callahan 1997 170 Regis Philbin 1996 170 Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford 1991 1995 170 known collectively as Regis and Kathie Lee Phyllis George 1989 1990 170 Gary Collins 1982 1990 170 Ron Ely 1980 1981 170 Bert Parks 1955 1979 48 Bob Russell 1940 1954 40 See also EditMiss America award winners Miss America s Outstanding TeenFurther reading and viewing EditArchives and collections Edit Finding Aid to Beauty Pageant Collection at Browne Popular Culture Library University Libraries Bowling Green State University Bowling Green Ohio What Beauty Pageant Queens Looked Like the Year You Were Born Cosmopolitan May 31 2016 It Happened Here in New Jersey Miss America Archived 2017 04 29 at the Wayback Machine Photographs of various Miss America pageants It Happened Here in New Jersey Here She is Miss America and the Protest of 1968 Archived 2020 12 22 at the Wayback MachineBooks Edit Banet Weiser Sarah The Most Beautiful Girl in the World Beauty Pageants and National Identity Berkeley University of California Press 1999 Carlson Gretchen Miss America 1989 Getting Real New York Viking Press 2015 Mifflin Margot Looking for Miss America A Pageant s 100 Year Quest to Define Womanhood Berkeley Counterpoint Press 2020 Riverol A R Live from Atlantic City A History of the Miss America Pageant Bowling Green OH Bowling Green State University Popular Press 1992 Shindle Kate Miss America 1998 Being Miss America Behind the Rhinestone Curtain University of Texas Press 2014 Williams Vanessa Miss America 1984 and Helen Williams You Have No Idea A Famous Daughter Her No nonsense Mother and How They Survived Pageants Hollywood Love Loss and Each Other New York Gotham Penguin Group 2012 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