Miss America
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is now judged on competitors' talent performances and interviews. As ...
is an annual competition open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Originating in 1921 as a
beauty pageant
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, ...
, the competition now judges competitors' talent performances and interviews in addition to their physical appearance.
In January 2018, the new board of directors increased the maximum age of titleholders to 25 years old, from 24.
Therefore, contestants cannot be older than 25 years old on December 31 in the calendar year of her state competition.
Gallery of past Miss Americas
File:Margaret Gorman 4.jpg, alt=Woman with crown, holding a large flag,
File:Mary Katherine Campbell.jpg,
File:Ruth Malcomson cropped.jpg,
File:Norma Smallwood (cropped).jpg,
File:Lois Delander Miss America 1927.jpg,
File:Jean Bartel as Miss America 1943.jpg,
File:Bess Myerson 1957.jpg,
File:Marilynbuferd.jpg,
File:Jacque Mercer waving front (cropped).jpg,
File:Yolande Betbeze NYWTS.jpg,
File:Lee Meriwether The Time Tunnel.jpg,
File:Miss America Marian McKnight at 1957 Florida Products Festival - Cypress Gardens (cropped).jpg,
File:Mary Ann Mobley, Brandon. (Miss Miss. '58,) (Miss America, '58-'59,) (Photo at WLBT)..png,
File:Lynda Lee Mead NYWTS.jpg,
File:Nancy Anne Fleming Miss Michigan postcard, front.jpg,
File:Maria Beale Fletcher postcard front.jpg,
File:Deborah Bryant, Miss America 1966, postcard front.jpg,
File:Miss America 1967 Jane Jayroe Poster, cropped.jpg,
File:Judith Ford, Miss America 1969.jpg,
File:Phyllis George 2008.png,
File:Shirley Cothran, 1975 Miss America.jpg,
File:Tawny Godin at a State Dinner in Honor of the King and Queen of Spain.jpg,
File:Susan Perkins Botsford.jpg ,
File:MissAmerica1983.jpg ,
File:Vanessa Williams, former Miss America 1984, cropped.jpg,
File:Suzette Charles, Miss America.jpg ,
File:Susan Akin at White House.jpg ,
File:Tara Holland in the Library of Congress (cropped).jpg ,
File:Kate Shindle sings before the 2008 Alamo Bowl.jpg ,
File:Heather French headshot.png ,
File:Katie Harman 2008.png,
File:Ms. Erika Harold (cropped).JPG,
File:MissAmerica2004 (cropped).jpg,
File:Deidre DownsJCWP2 (cropped).JPG,
File:Jennifer Berry holding crown (cropped).jpg ,
File:Lauren Nelson.jpg,
File:Kirsten Haglund headshot.png,
File:Katie Stam cropped.png,
File:Caressa Cameron.jpg,
File:Teresa Scanlan at AUSA convention.jpg,
File:Laura Kaeppeler at home of Commandant of Marine Corps.jpg,
File:Mallory Hagan LRLM371 (cropped).jpg,
File:Nina Davuluri.jpg,
File:Kira Kazantsev 2 March 2015.jpg,
File:Betty Cantrell, Miss America 2016 Says Thanks.jpg,
File:Savvy Shields (cropped).jpg,
File:Cara Mund 2018.jpg,
File:2018 Military Bowl - Nia Franklin.jpg,
File:Camille Schrier for DEA Take Back Day 2.jpg,
File:2021 Show Us Your Shoes Parade - Alaska (cropped).jpg,
Winners
Winners by state
;Debut wins
States have yet to win Miss America
There have been no Miss America winners from the following seventeen states:
*
Delaware
Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...
*
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyom ...
*
Iowa
Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the ...
*
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
*
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and north ...
*
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
*
*
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ...
*
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...
*
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
*
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
*
Rhode Island
Rhode Island (, like ''road'') is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the List of U.S. states by area, smallest U.S. state by area and the List of states and territories of the United States ...
*
South Dakota
South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...
*
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ...
*
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
*
West Virginia
West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bur ...
*
Wyoming
Wyoming () is a U.S. state, state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north and northwest, South Dakota and Nebraska to the east, Idaho to the west, Utah to the south ...
U.S. territories that do not participate Miss America now
*
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
(until 1963)
*
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...
(until 2017)
*
Virgin Islands
The Virgin Islands ( es, Islas Vírgenes) are an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. They are geologically and biogeographically the easternmost part of the Greater Antilles, the northern islands belonging to the Puerto Rico Trench and St. Croix ...
(until 2015)
Notes
References
External links
Miss America official website
{{MissAmericas , state=collapsed
Miss America titleholders
Miss America titleholders
Miss American titleholders
*
ca:Miss Amèrica