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The contestants in the Miss America pageant are the winners from their home-state pageants.
this is the first time a Nebraskan has ever won the Miss America contest.
Miss America first allowed contestants to wear two-piece swimsuits in 1997.
The point is to judge the contestants based on the rules of the contest, and not to become sexually aroused by the contestants, so the man's sexual orientation is not relevant.
Lois Delander from Joliet, Illinois, won the Miss America contest in 1927.
The 1981 Miss America was Miss Oklahoma, Susan Powell. Note that she actually won the contest in the fall of 1980; the winner of the contest held in 1981 was the 1982 Miss America, Elizabeth Gracen of Arkansas.
There was no Miss America pageant in 1950.
Helen Harmon and who else?
Miss America: Cheryl Prewitt (Miss Mississippi)
I think that Judith Ford from Belvidere, Illinois, won the Miss America contest in 1969.
I think that Elizabeth Ward from Russellville, Arkansas, won the Miss America contest in 1982.
I think that Henrietta Leaver from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, won the Miss America contest in 1935.