There were two: Angela Tower from Alabama and Susan Akin from Mississippi.
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contest of miss hoboken nj 1986
The winners of the preliminary Swimsuit Award at the 1985 Miss America pageant were:Kathy Manning, Miss MississippiTamara Hart, Miss TexasSharlene Wells, Miss Utah
Miss Virginia
this is the first time a Nebraskan has ever won the Miss America contest.
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.
Miss America: Cheryl Prewitt (Miss Mississippi)
* Miss America 1986: Susan Akin (Miss Mississippi) * First runner-up: Sherry Thrift (Miss South Carolina) * Second runner-up: Jonna Fitzgerald (Miss Texas) * Third runner-up: Honey Castro (Miss Washington) * Fourth runner-up: Angela Tower (Miss Alabama)
I think that Henrietta Leaver from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, won the Miss America contest in 1935.
I think that Patricia Donnelly from Detroit, Michigan, won the Miss America contest in 1939.