| Year |
Name |
Hometown |
Age |
Local Title |
Miss America Talent |
Placement at Miss America |
Special scholarships at Miss America |
Notes |
| 2011 |
Julia Furtado |
Dayton |
19 |
Miss Seacoast |
Vocal "Over the Rainbow" |
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| 2010 |
Arikka Knights |
Chester |
24 |
Miss Greater Lincoln |
Tap Dance "Jumpin' Jack" |
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Contestant at National Sweetheart 2007 |
| 2009 |
Susie Stauble |
Gray |
22 |
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Vocal "Stand Up for Love" |
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Non-Finalist Talent Award |
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| 2008 |
Adrienne Watkinson |
Topsham |
23 |
Miss Topsham |
Violin |
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| 2007 |
Tara Allain |
Waterville |
22 |
Miss Kennebec County |
Dance "Hangin' By a Thread" |
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| 2006 |
Karissa Staples |
Biddeford |
19 |
Miss Greater Portland |
Vocal "Take Me Or Leave Me" from Rent |
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| 2005 |
Megan Beals |
Ludlow |
22 |
Miss Houlton |
Vocal "Johnny One Note" |
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| 2004 |
Ami Vice |
Lisbon Falls |
23 |
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Classical Vocal "Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta" from La rondine |
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Bernie Wayne Scholarship, Non-finalist Talent Award |
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| 2003 |
Elizabeth Edgecomb |
Limestone |
20 |
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Classical Piano "Fantaisie-Impromptu" |
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Non-Finalist Talent |
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| 2002 |
Rachel Wadsworth |
Hiram |
20 |
Miss Forest City |
Rhythm Tap Dance |
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Contestant at National Sweetheart 2001 |
| 2001 |
Meranda Hafford |
Washburn |
20 |
Miss Northern Aroostook |
Vocal "Next Time I Love" |
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| 2000 |
Renee Belanger |
Washburn |
22 |
Miss Northern Aroostook |
Jazz Dance "Jet Prologue" from West Side Story |
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| 1999 |
Rebecca Pelkey |
Howland |
21 |
Miss Greater Portland |
Character Ballet "Can-Can" |
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| 1998 |
Stephany Stanley |
Canton |
20 |
Miss Southeast |
Acro-Jazz Dance "The Stampede!" from The Lion King |
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Contestant at National Sweetheart 1997 |
| 1997 |
Rachel Binder |
Presque Isle |
23 |
Miss Aroostook County |
Lyrical Ballet "Seasons of Love" |
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| 1996 |
Sarah Nadeau |
Portland |
20 |
Miss Greater Portland |
Classical Vocal "Addio" from La bohème |
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| 1995 |
Sharon Pelletier |
Madawaska |
23 |
Miss Greater Portland |
Popular Vocal "At This Moment" |
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| 1994 |
Victoria Renyolds |
Bangor |
22 |
Miss Cumberland County |
Tap Dance |
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| 1993 |
Josette Huntress |
Limestone |
21 |
Miss Northern Maine |
Piano |
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| 1992 |
Christina Jane Lasso |
Augusta |
23 |
Miss Central Maine |
Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville |
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| 1991 |
Dorie Noble |
South Portland |
25 |
Miss Cumberland County |
Comedic Monologue "Yma Dream" by Thomas Meehan |
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| 1990 |
Ann Rowe |
Auburn |
26 |
Miss Greater Portland |
Vocal "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables |
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| 1989 |
Jane Brochu |
Augusta |
25 |
Miss Augusta |
Vocal "Stormy Weather" |
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| 1988 |
Lisa Kent |
Gorham |
21 |
Miss Cumberland County |
Gymnastics / Jazz Dance |
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| 1987 |
Laurie Watham |
Fort Fairfield |
25 |
Miss Northern Aroostook |
Piano Solo "Ode to Joy" |
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Non-finalist Talent Award |
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| 1986 |
Victoria Reed |
Falmouth |
26 |
Miss Windjammer |
Vocal "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" |
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| 1985 |
Mary Margaret Nightingale |
Fort Fairfield |
20 |
Miss Southern Aroostook |
Vocal "The Blue Danube" |
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| 1984 |
Lisa Johnson |
South Portland |
22 |
Miss Cumberland County |
Electric Violin |
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| 1983 |
Brenda Theriault |
Presque Isle |
22 |
Miss Southern Aroostook |
Vocal "Bill Bailey" |
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| 1982 |
Rebecca Beck |
Brunswick |
21 |
Miss Bangor |
Classical Vocal "Adele's Laughing Song" from Die Fledermaus |
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| 1981 |
Kathleen Jarrell |
Orr's Island |
19 |
Miss Windjammer |
Vocal Medley "Swanee," "My Mammy" & "I'm Happy" |
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| 1980 |
Valerie Crooker |
Brunswick |
24 |
Miss Brunswick |
Vocal / Dance |
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Previously Miss Maine USA 1979, currently serves as President of the Miss Maine Board of Directors |
| 1979 |
Jill O'Brien |
Bangor |
22 |
Miss Bangor |
Ballet "Irish Suite" |
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| 1978 |
Linda Carroll |
Alfred |
22 |
Miss Maine Mall |
Semi-Classical Vocal "I Could Have Danced All Night" |
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| 1977 |
Terry Gilpatrick |
Lincoln |
18 |
Miss Lincoln |
Pantomime "Me and My Shadow" |
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| 1976 |
Susan Wambaugh |
Presque Isle |
19 |
Miss Maine Potato Queen |
Dramatic Monologue from As You Like It |
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| 1975 |
Patricia Cyr |
Madawaska |
18 |
Miss Maine Potato Queen |
Vocal "Cabaret" |
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Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1974 |
Margaret Ann Welch |
Bangor |
22 |
Miss Greater Bangor |
Vocal "Killing Me Softly with His Song" |
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| 1973 |
Carlene Quimby |
Auburn |
20 |
Miss University of Maine |
Vocal "I Cain't Say No" |
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| 1972 |
Marilyn Lash |
Friendship |
19 |
Miss University of Maine |
Semi-Classical Vocal "Poor Wand'ring One" from The Pirates of Penzance |
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| 1971 |
Allyn Warner |
Falmouth |
21 |
Miss Greater Portland |
Semi-Classical Vocal "Mira" from Carnival |
4th runner-up |
Preliminary Talent Award |
Toured with Miss America USO Troupe; Competed in the 1966 Miss Teenage America Pageant |
| 1970 |
Karen Johanna Johnson |
Cumberland Foreside |
20 |
Miss Greater Portland |
Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" |
2nd runner-up |
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| 1969 |
Kirsten Elizabeth Bell |
Caribou |
18 |
Miss Caribou |
Piano Solo "Theme from The Apartment" |
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| 1968 |
Brenda Renee Verceles |
Bangor |
19 |
Miss Bangor |
Tap Dance "Step to the Rear" from How Now, Dow Jones |
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| 1967 |
Linda Christine Livanda |
Cape Elizabeth |
19 |
Miss Cape Elizabeth |
Original Recitation & Dance "Dance of the Decades" |
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| 1966 |
Mary Kathryn Gonya |
Millinocket |
20 |
Miss Millinocket |
Recitation |
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Previously Maine's Junior Miss 1964 |
| 1965 |
Ellen Margaret Fowler |
Old Orchard Beach |
19 |
Miss Gorham State Teachers' College |
Vocal / Dance "Some People" |
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| 1964 |
Ellen J Warren |
Kennebunk |
18 |
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Vocal / Dance |
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Toured with Miss America USO troupe, featured performer on the 1965 and 1966 Miss America Pageant telecasts |
| 1963 |
Elaine Ann Ouillette |
Lewiston |
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Miss Lewiston |
Musical Variety Act |
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| 1962 |
Barbara Jean Orr |
Portland |
19 |
Miss Livermore Falls |
Vocal "I Wanna Be Loved by You" |
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| 1961 |
Dawn Frances Christie |
Gray |
21 |
Miss Scarborough |
Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11" |
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Non-finalist Talent Award |
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| 1960 |
Sally Ann Robinson |
Enfield |
20 |
Miss Lincoln |
Monologue / Piano |
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Non-finalist Talent Award |
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| 1959 |
Linda Mills |
Lewiston |
18 |
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Dramatic Reading |
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Assumed the title after the original winner, Linda Leeman, withdrew in order to get married |
| 1958 |
Terry Suzanne Tripp |
Lewiston |
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Ballet |
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| 1957 |
Carol Ann Bartels |
Bath |
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Drama / Art |
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| 1956 |
Mary Ellen Sanborn |
Gardiner |
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Drama |
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| 1955 |
Janice Vaughn |
Waterville |
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| 1954 |
Mary Ellen St. John |
Old Town |
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Drama |
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| 1953 |
Karen Diane Thorsell |
Portland |
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Vocal |
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| 1952 |
Norma Lee Collins |
Caribou |
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| 1951 |
Beverly Ann Emery |
Auburn |
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Classical Vocal from The Student Prince |
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| 1950 |
Jane Harragan |
Millinocket |
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Drama "The Corn Is Green" |
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| 1949 |
Connie Gingrass |
Augusta |
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| 1948 |
Muriel Applebee |
Enfield |
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| 1945 |
Virginia Trask |
Portland |
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Vocal "I Should Care" |
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| 1943 |
Eleanor Fournier |
Westbrook |
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| 1940 |
Shirley Edith Houston |
Augusta |
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| 1938 |
Doris Marie Bergeron |
Lewiston |
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| 1937 |
Cornelia Campbell |
South Portland |
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| 1936 |
Dolly Stewart |
Rockland |
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| 1936 |
Edna Smith |
Portland |
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competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant |
| 1933 |
Iva Stewart |
|
19 |
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Semi-Finalist |
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| 1924 |
No Miss Maine |
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Lillian J. Barry competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant |
| 1923 |
No Miss Maine |
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Winona Evelyn Drew competed as Miss Portland in the Miss America Pageant. |
