Who Won the Miss America Pageant?
The Miss America pageant started in the earlier 1920s and was held every fall in Atlantic City, New Jersey until 2006 when it was held in January in Las Vegas. The prizes, along with the title of "Miss America", consist primarily of scholarship money.
Bert Parks famously hosted the Miss America pageant from 1954-1979.
The most recent holder of the title of Miss America 2013 is Mallory Hagan, Miss New York.
| Year | Winner | From | Runner Up | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Mallory Hagan | Miss New York | Ali Rogers (Miss South Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 2012 | Laura Kaeppeler | Miss Wisconsin | Betty Thompson (Miss Oklahoma) | Details >> | |
| 2011 | Teresa Scanlan | Miss Nebraska | Alyse Eady (Miss Arkansas) | Details >> | |
| 2010 | Caressa Cameron | Miss Virginia | Kristy Cavinder (Miss California) | Details >> | |
| 2009 | Katie Stam | Miss Indiana | Chastity Hardman (Miss Georgia) | Details >> | |
| 2008 | Kirsten Haglund | Miss Michigan | Nicole Elizabeth Rash (Miss Indiana) | Details >> | |
| 2007 | Lauren Nelson | Miss Oklahoma | Shilah Phillips (Miss Texas) | Details >> | |
| 2006 | Jennifer Berry | Miss Oklahoma | Monica Pong (Miss Georgia) | Details >> | |
| 2004 | Deidre Downs | Miss Alabama | Jennifer Dupont (Miss Louisiana) | Details >> | |
| 2003 | Ericka Dunlap | Miss Florida | Kanoelani Gibson (Miss Hawaii) | Details >> | |
| 2002 | Erika Harold | Miss Illinois | Scarlotte Deupree (Miss Alabama) | Details >> | |
| 2001 | Katie Harman | Miss Oregon | Abbie Rabine (Miss Massachusetts) | Details >> | |
| 2000 | Angela Perez Baraquio | Miss Hawaii | Faith Jenkins (Miss Louisiana) | Details >> | |
| 1999 | Heather French | Miss Kentucky | Jade Smalls (Miss Illinois) | Details >> | |
| 1998 | Nicole Johnson | Miss Virginia | Kelli Bradshaw (Miss North Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 1997 | Katherine Shindle | Miss Illinois | Michelle Warren (Miss North Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 1996 | Tara Dawn Holland | Miss Kansas | Erika Rachael Schwarz (Miss Louisiana) | Details >> | |
| 1995 | Shawntel Smith | Miss Oklahoma | Emily John Orton (Miss Oregon) | Details >> | |
| 1994 | Heather Whitestone | Miss Alabama | Cullen Johnson (Miss Virginia) | Details >> | |
| 1993 | Kimberly Clarice Aiken | Miss South Carolina | Kara Kim Martin (Miss Georgia) | Details >> | |
| 1992 | Leanza Cornett | Miss Florida | Catherine Ann Lemkau (Miss Iowa) | Details >> | |
| 1991 | Carolyn Suzanne Sapp | Miss Hawaii | Marisol Montalvo (Miss New York) | Details >> | |
| 1990 | Marjorie Judith Vincent | Miss Illinois | Mary Waddell Gainey (Miss South Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 1989 | Debbye Turner | Miss Missouri | Virginia Cha (Miss Maryland) | Details >> | |
| 1988 | Gretchen Carlson | Miss Minnesota | Maya Walker (Miss Colorado) | Details >> | |
| 1987 | Kaye Lani Rae Rafko | Miss Michigan | Patricia Brant (Miss Louisiana) | Details >> | |
| 1986 | Kellye Cash | Miss Tennessee | Julianne Smith (Miss Virginia) | Details >> | |
| 1985 | Susan Akin | Miss Mississippi | Sherry Thrift (Miss South Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 1984 | Sharlene Wells | Miss Utah | Melissa Bradley (Miss Ohio) | Details >> | |
| 1983 | Vanessa Williams | Miss New York | Suzette Charles (Miss New Jersey) | Details >> | |
| 1982 | Debra Maffett | Miss California | Desiree Daniels (Miss Tennessee) | Details >> | |
| 1981 | Elizabeth Ward | Miss Arkansas | Sandra Truitt (Miss Illinois) | Details >> | |
| 1980 | Susan Powell | Miss Oklahoma | Paige Phillips (Miss Alabama) | Details >> | |
| 1979 | Cheryl Prewitt | Miss Mississippi | Tana Kay Carli (Miss Ohio) | Details >> | |
| 1978 | Kylene Barker | Miss Virginia | Teresa Cheatham (Miss Alabama) | Details >> | |
| 1977 | Susan Perkins | Miss Ohio | Barbara Mougin (Miss Indiana) | Details >> | |
| 1976 | Dorothy Benham | Miss Minnesota | Lavinia Cox (Miss South Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 1975 | Tawny Godin | Miss New York | Susan Lawrence (Miss North Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 1974 | Shirley Cothran | Miss Texas | Lucianne Buchanan (Miss California) | Details >> | |
| 1973 | Rebecca Ann King | Miss Colorado | Judy Hieke (Miss Wisconsin) | Details >> | |
| 1972 | Terry Meeuwsen | Miss Wisconsin | Constance Anne Dorn (Miss North Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 1971 | Laurie Lea Schaefer | Miss Ohio | Karen Herd (Miss Idaho) | Details >> | |
| 1970 | Phyllis George | Miss Texas | Claudia Turner (Miss South Carolina) | Details >> | |
| 1969 | Pamela Eldred | Miss Michigan | Kathy Lynn Baumann (Miss Ohio) | Details >> | |
| 1968 | Judith Ford | Miss Illinois | Catherine Monroe (Miss Massachusetts) | Details >> | |
| 1967 | Debra Dene Barnes | Miss Kansas | Joan Stephanie Myers (Miss Mississippi) | Details >> | |
| 1966 | Jane Anne Jayroe | Miss Oklahoma | Charlene Dallas (Miss California) | Details >> | |
| 1965 | Deborah Bryant | Miss Kansas | Patricia Puckett (Miss Mississippi) | Details >> | |
| 1964 | Vonda Kay Van Dyke | Miss Arizona | Karen Carlson (Miss Arkansas) | Details >> | |
| 1963 | Donna Axum | Miss Arkansas | Roseanne Tueller (Miss District of Columbia) | Details >> | |
| 1962 | Jacquelyn Mayer | Miss Ohio | Joan Mary Engh (Miss Wisconsin) | Details >> | |
| 1961 | Maria Fletcher | Miss North Carolina | Frances Jane Anderson (Miss Arkansas) | Details >> | |
| 1960 | Nancy Fleming | Miss Michigan | Suzanne Marie Reamo (Miss California) | Details >> | |
| 1959 | Lynda Lee Mead | Miss Mississippi | Mary Alice Fox (Miss Wisconsin) | Details >> | |
| 1958 | Mary Ann Mobley | Miss Mississippi | Joanne Lucille MacDonald (Miss Iowa) | Details >> | |
| 1957 | Marilyn Van Derbur | Miss Colorado | Jody Elizabeth Shattuck (Miss Georgia) | Details >> | |
| 1956 | Marian McKnight | Miss South Carolina | Margo Zita Sandra Lucey (Miss District of Columbia) | Details >> | |
| 1955 | Sharon Ritchie | Miss Colorado | Dorothy Mae Johnson (Miss Oregon) | Details >> | |
| 1954 | Lee Meriwether | Miss California | Ann Daniel (Miss Florida) | Details >> | |
| 1953 | Evelyn Margaret Ay | Miss Pennsylvania | Joan Kaible (Miss New York City) | Details >> | |
| 1952 | Neva Jane Langley | Miss Georgia | Ann Marie Garnier (Miss Indiana) | Details >> | |
| 1951 | Colleen Kay Hutchins | Miss Utah | Carol Mitchell (Miss Montana) | Details >> | |
| 1950 | Yolande Betbeze | Miss Alabama | Irene O’Connor (Miss South Dakota) | Details >> | |
| 1949 | Jacque Mercer | Miss Arizona | Katherine Wright (Miss Mississippi) | Details >> | |
| 1948 | BeBe Shopp | Miss Minnesota | Carol Held (Miss Wyoming) | Details >> | |
| 1947 | Barbara Jo Walker | Miss Memphis | Elaine Mary Campbell (Miss Minnesota) | Details >> | |
| 1946 | Marilyn Buferd | Miss California | Rebecca Jane McCall (Miss Arkansas) | Details >> | |
| 1945 | Bess Myerson | Miss New York City | Phyllis Mathis (Miss San Diego) | Details >> | |
| 1944 | Venus Ramey | Miss District Of Columbia | Paulina McKevitt (Miss Boston) | Details >> | |
| 1943 | Jean Bartel | Miss California | Muriel Smith (Miss Florida) | Details >> | |
| 1942 | Jo-Carroll Dennison | Miss Texas | Bette Brunck (Miss Chicago) | Details >> | |
| 1941 | Rosemary LaPlanche | Miss California | Roselle Marie Hannon (Miss Western Pennsylvania) | Details >> | |
| 1940 | Frances Marie Burke | Miss Philadelphia | Rosemary LaPlanche (Miss California) | Details >> | |
| 1939 | Patricia Donnelly | Miss Michigan | Bettye Cornelia Averyt (Miss Oklahoma) | Details >> | |
| 1938 | Marilyn Meseke | Miss Ohio | Claire James (Miss California) | Details >> | |
| 1937 | Bette Cooper | Miss Bertrand Island | Alice Emerick (Miss Texas) | Details >> | |
| 1936 | Rose Coyle | Miss Philadelphia | Phyllis Hume Dobson (Miss California) | Details >> | |
| 1935 | Henrietta Leaver | Miss Pittsburgh | Edna Smith (Miss Missouri) | Details >> | |
| 1933 | Marian Bergeron | Miss Connecticut | Florence Myers (Miss New York) | Details >> | |
| 1927 | Lois Delander | Miss Illinois | Mozelle Ransome (Miss Dallas) | Details >> | |
| 1926 | Norma Smallwood | Miss Tulsa | Marjorie Joosting (Miss District of Columbia) | Details >> | |
| 1925 | Fay Lanphier | Miss California | Adrienne Dore (Miss Los Angeles) | Details >> | |
| 1924 | Ruth Malcomson | Miss Philadelphia | Mary Campbell (Miss America 1922 & 1923) | Details >> | |
| 1923 | Mary Campbell | Miss Columbus | Ethelda Kenvin (Miss Brooklyn) | Details >> | |
| 1922 | Mary Campbell | Miss Columbus | Margaret Gorman (Miss America 1921) | Details >> | |
| 1921 | Margaret Gorman | Miss Washington D.C. | Virginia Lee (Miss New York City) | Details >> |