New Zealand New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern Faces Tough Campaign as She Picks Date for New Election

NZEALAND-VOLCANO

Massachusetts Chipotle Fined $1.3 Million for More Than 13,000 Child Labor Violations

Chipotle

compare-card

SPONSORED

Crime California Man Pleads Guilty to Killing 4 Homeless Men, Setting 2 on Fire

Homeless Killings

1921: Margaret Gorman from Washington — 1921: Margaret Gorman from WashingtonAP

1921: Margaret Gorman from Washington

Campbell

American beauty queen Mary Katherine Campbell is promenaded

1924 Miss America From Philadelphia Pennsylvania Ruth Malcomson

Fay Lanphier (right), Miss America of 1925, shown backstage

Mrs. Norma D. Smallwood, Miss Tulsa, winner of 1926 Miss Ame

Long Serving Star

Marian Bergeron, the 1933 winner of the Miss America Contest.

Miss America competition: The acting Miss Pittsburgh of 1935 Henrietta Leaver won beauty competition and is the new Miss America. Atlantic City. USA. Photograph. 17 September, 1935. (Photo by Austrian Archives (AA)

Coyle

Cooper

And For The Winner

Miss America

Burke Donnelly

Up On The Roof

Miss America for 1942. - 23-September-1942

Miss America Jean Bartel 1943

Venus Ramey

Miss America winner Bess Myerson

Two Miss Americas

Barbara Jo Walker Wearing Miss America Crown

Miss America of 1948 Beatrice Shopp

Jacque Mercer Waving to Cameraman

Yolande Betbeze Wearing Swim Suit

Hutchins

Neva Langley, the 1953 winner of the Miss America contest.

Evelyn Ay Strolling Down Runway

Lee Ann Meriwether Kicking Her Heels in the Surf

Miss America Being Crowned

Mary Ann McKnight with Glass of Orange Juice

OCT 30 1957, OCT 31 1957; Young photographers got the chance of a lifetime when Miss America, Marily

Mary Ann Mobley in Pageant Dress

Lynda Lee Mead on Winning Beauty Pageant

Nancy Anne Fleming,Miss America 1960

Miss America 1962

Bert Parks Poses

Couple Performing Water Skiing Act

Crowning of Miss America 1965

NOV 8 1965, NOV 9 1965, MAY 13 1968; Deborah Bryant, Overland, Kan., as Miss America; She's seen man

1967: Jayne Anne Jayroe from Laverne, Okla.

1968: Debra Barnes from Pittsburg, Kan.

miss-america-winner-49

Pamela Anne Eldred, Judith Anne Ford

Miss America Phyllis George

Portrait of Miss America 1972

Miss America 1973 Being Crowned

King

miss-america-winner-50

1976: Tawny Godin from Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Beauty Queen

1978: Susan Perkins fromColumbus, Ohio

1979: Kylene Barker from Roanoke, Va.

Miss America Pageant 1980

Susan Powell

WARD

1983: Debra Sue Maffett from Anaheim, Calif.

1984: Vanessa Williams from Millwood, N.Y.

1984: Suzette Charles from Mays Landing, N.J.

1985: Sharlene Wells Salt Lake City, Utah

1986: Susan Akin from Meridian, Miss.

1987: Kellye Cash from Memphis, Tenn.

1988: Kaye Lani Rae Rafko from Monroe, Mich.

1989: Gretchen Carlson from Anoka, Minn.

CARLSON CHA TURNER

1991_Marjorie Vincent

1992: Carolyn Sapp from Honolulu

1993: Leanza Cornett from Jacksonville, Fla.

1994: Kimberly Aiken from Columbia, S.C.

Heather Whitestone, First Deaf-Mute to be Elected Miss America 1995

1996: Shawntel Smith from Muldrow Okla.

1997: Tara Dawn Holland from Overland Park, Kans.

1998: Kate Shindle from Evanston Ill.

1999: Nicole Johnson from Virginia Beach, Va.

2000: Heather French from Maysville, Ky.

2001: Angela Perez Baraquio from Honolulu, Hawaii

2002: Katie Harman from Gresham, Ore.

2003: Erika Harold from Urbana, Ill.

2004: Ericka Dunlap from Orlando, Fla.

2005: Deidre Downs from Birmingham, Ala.

2006: Jennifer Berry from Tulsa, Okla.

2007: Lauren Nelson from Lawton, Okla.

2008: Kirsten Haglund from Farmington Hills, Mich.

2009: Katie Stam from Seymour, Ind.

2010: Caressa Cameron from Fredericksburg, Va

2011: Teresa Scanlan from Gering, Neb.

2012: Laura Kaeppeler from Kenosha, Wis.

2013: Mallory Hytes Hagan from Brooklyn, N.Y.

2014: Nina Davuluri from Syracuse, N.Y.

Kira Kazantsev, Miss New York Crowned Miss America 2015

Miss Arkansa, Savvy Shields, waves to crowd after being named new the Miss America 2017 in Atlantic City, N.J., Sept. 11, 2016.

1921: Margaret Gorman from Washington
AP

1 of 90

See Photos of Every Miss America Since 1921

Sep 14, 2014

Customer Service Site Map Privacy Policy Ad Choices Terms of Use Your California Privacy Rights Careers

© 2020 TIME USA, LLC. All rights reserved.

TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.