MISS AMERICA 1940

NOTE:  Miss Congeniality title was not awarded this year

1940 September 7
45  entries

Results
1  PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Frances Marie Burke
2  CALIFORNIA - Rosemary LaPlanche
3  MICHIGAN - Monnie Drake
4  MASSACHUSETTS - Polly L. Connors
5  KENTUCKY - Dorothy Slatten  (America 41)

Semi-finalists
DELAWARE - Peggy E. Insolo
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Catherine Virginia Howe
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA - Mildred Irene Saha
HUNTINGTON (WV) - Juanita Park Wright
MIAMI (FL) - Mitzi Strother
MISSOURI - Virginia Morrison
MONTANA - Kay Kittendorff
MYRTLE BEACH (SC) - La Bruce Sherill
OKLAHOMA - Ada Martyne Woods
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA - Alberta Louise Carts (of Pittsburgh)

Remainder
ARIZONA - Anna Marie Barnett
ARKANSAS - Betty Benson
BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Evelyn Randall Motlow
CENTRAL OHIO - Bette Jane Hart
COLORADO - Eileen H. Hoskins
CONNECTICUT - Dorothy Pickard
DELAWARE COUNTY (PA) - Dorothy A. Wall
EASTERN NEW YORK - Geraldine Anne Racine
INDIANA - Carolyn M. Akin
KANSAS CITY (MO) - Gloria Kathleen Gipson
KNOXVILLE (TN) - Thelma McGhee
MAINE - Shirley Edith Houston
MARYLAND - Marie Beiser
MINNESOTA - Virginia Dee Kepler
MISSISSIPPI - Carolyn Simon
MONTGOMERY (AL) - Carolyn Louise Foreman
NEW JERSEY - Mildred Marie Selko
NEW ORLEANS (LA) - Pauline Powell
NORTH CAROLINA - Jeanne D’Arbre Wofford
OHIO - Violet Berze
ST. LOUIS (MO) - LaFern Mueller
SOUTH CAROLINA - Vanadora Baker
TENNESSEE - Christine Webb
TEXAS - Gloria Ann Byrns (America 41)
VIRGINIA - Virginia Campbell
WASHINGTON - Peggy Mason
WEST VIRGINIA - Mary Schlarmann Bowles
WESTCHESTER COUNTY (NY) - Constantine Gray
WESTERN KENTUCKY - Violet Owen
WESTERN NEW YORK - Gloria Elizabeth Sheehan

MISS AMERICA 1941

NOTE: Last pageant at which repeat contestants were permitted

1941  September 6
43  entries

Results
1  CALIFORNIA - Rosemary LaPlanche  (1st RU America 40)
2  WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA - Roselle Marie Hannon
3  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Jean Fidelis Cavanaugh
4  WESTCHESTER COUNTY (NY) - Lillian Helen O'Donnell
5  NORTH CAROLINA - Joey Augusta Paxton

Semi-finalists
BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Virginia Connie McGraw
FLORIDA - Mitzi Strother
GEORGIA - Esther Bette Shepard
KENTUCKY - Dorothy Slatten (America 40)
MICHIGAN - Gerry Marcoux
NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Grace De Witt
OHIO - Janice Sulzman
OKLAHOMA - Mifaunwy Dolores Shunatona
VIRGINIA - Jacquelyn McWin
WISCONSIN - Betty Ann Miller

Remainder
ARKANSAS - Ferol Amelia Dumas
CHARLESTON (SC) - Miriam King
CLEVELAND (OH) - Lois Jean Beck
COLORADO - Charlene Vivian Woods
CONNECTICUT - Daphne Alemita Gladding
DELAWARE - Verona Smith
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA - Catherine Jane Albert
INDIANA - Alice Ullery
IOWA - Lorene Ann Snoddy
KANSAS CITY (MO) - Leila Bell Wright
KNOXVILLE (TN) - Katherine Nadine Gammon
LAKE MOHOPAC (NY) - Charlotte Mildred Winstanley
MARYLAND - Mary Jane "Penny" Malone
MASSACHUSETTS - Betsy Sears Taylor
MIAMI (FL) - Anna Louise Baker
MINNESOTA - Patricia Tietz
MISSISSIPPI - Madeline Theresa Smith
MISSOURI - Geraldine Martha Koehler
NEW JERSEY - Marjorie Eleanor Jennings
NEW MEXICO - Beverly Nell Brookshier
NEW ORLEANS (LA) - Helen Yvonne Englert
PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Carrie de Ludo
SAVANNAH (GA) - Gladys Juanitas Collins
SOUTH CAROLINA - Gloria Frances Missel
TENNESSEE - Martha Ewing McKinney
WEST VIRGINIA - Juanita Park Wright  (Huntington-America 40)
WYOMING - Patricia Marie Snyder

Withdrew due to illness
TEXAS - Gloria Ann Byrns (America 40)

MISS AMERICA 1942

1942  September 12
30 entries

Results
1  TEXAS - Jo-Carroll Dennison
2  CHICAGO (IL) - Bette Brunk
3  MICHIGAN - Patricia Uline Hill
4  NEW JERSEY - Madeline Elizabeth Layton
5  CALIFORNIA - Lucille Lambert

Semi-finalists
BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Marie Lucille Duncan
FLORIDA - Eileen Irma Knapp
ILLINOIS - Patricia Hayes
MIAMI (FL) - Leona Beverly Fredericks
NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Annyse Diane Sherman

Remainder
CENTRAL NEW YORK - Catherine Victoria Zambon
CINCINNATI (OH) - Barbara Patterson
COLUMBIA (SC) - Sarah Virginia Pulliam
CONNECTICUT - Alice Irene Clifford
DELAWARE - Dorothy McGovern
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Marilyn Elaine Makin
MARYLAND - Bettye Mitchell
MASSACHUSETTS - Paula Boardman
MINNESOTA - Jane Goerner
MISSISSIPPI - Dorothy Elizabeth Fox
NEBRASKA - Claire Marie Buglewicz
NEW MEXICO - Marjorie Rose Adams
NEW ORLEANS (LA) - Edna Joyce
NEW YORK - Marion Moselle
PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Geraldine Mae Powell
NORTH CAROLINA - Hilda Ward Taylor
SOUTH CAROLINA - Nelle Xermenia Owens
VIRGINIA - Charlotte Mae Smith
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA - Ruth Elfreda Schmidt
WISCONSIN - Charlotte Lemmer

Miss Congeniality  Mississippi

MISS AMERICA 1943

1943  September 11
33  entries

Results
1  CALIFORNIA - Jean Bartel
2  FLORIDA - Muriel Elizabeth Smith
3  BOSTON (MA) - Helena Frances Mack
4  NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Milena Mae Miller
5  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Dixie Lou Rafter

Semi-finalists
ARKANSAS - Dorris Jeanne Love
CHICAGO (IL) - Marjorie Dorothy Nelson
MINNESOTA - Florence Mary Hunton
NEW JERSEY - Kathleen Harris
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA - Emma Hammermeister

Remainder
ATLANTA (GA) - Barbara Annette Britton
BALTIMORE (MD) - Shirlee O’Connell
BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Toula Hagestratou
CINCINNATI (OH) - Joan Hyldoft
COLUMBIA (SC) - Sara Nina Harvin
CONNECTICUT - Mary B. Rice
DELAWARE - Mona Daisy Crawford
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA - Betty Marie Marcus
ILLINOIS - Dorothy Belle Kohrt
MAINE - Eleanor E. Fournier
MARYLAND - Lillian Marlene Huber
MASSACHUSETTS - Mary Jane McAnulty
MIAMI (FL) - Dolly Esther Bowles
MICHIGAN - Ruby Jean Telfer
MISSISSIPPI - Arminta Scott
NEW ORLEANS (LA) - Shirley Catherine Lange
NEW YORK - Marion Butler
OKLAHOMA - Joan Marceille Hawk
PHILADELPHIA (PA) - June Rae McAdams
RICHMOND (VA) - Dorothy Allyn Taylor
SOUTH CAROLINA - Jenelle Virginia Strange
ST. LOUIS (MO) - Emma Jean Adams
TENNESSEE - Frances Virginia Eakes

Miss Congeniality  Birmingham (AL)

MISS AMERICA 1944

1944  September 9
33  entries

Results
1  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Venus Ramey
2  BOSTON (MA) - Paulina Agnes McKevitt
3  FLORIDA - Virginia Warlen
4  CHICAGO (IL) - Elaine Steinbach
5  BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Betty Jane Rase

Semi-finalists
CALIFORNIA - Shirley Ballard
ILLINOIS - Betty June King
MIAMI (FL) - Vernell Bush
MICHIGAN - Beverly Bennett
MINNESOTA - Patricia Ann Cummings
NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Betty Jo Dazey
PENNSYLVANIA - Margie Dorie

Remainder
ARKANSAS - Mineola Graham
ATLANTA (GA) - Mary Ann Linane
CINCINNATI (OH) - Madeline Blanche Bohanon
COLUMBIA (SC) - Gloria Mae Grisso
CONNECTICUT - Barbara Olive Fisher
DELAWARE - Jacquelyn Vasseur
DETROIT (MI) - Dora June Victor
GEORGIA - Trudie Patricia Hayward
KANSAS - Grace Louise Pittman
MARYLAND - Audrey Jane Klingenberg
MASSACHUSETTS - Lucille Descoteau
MISSISSIPPI - Sarah Ann Topp
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Jackie Edson
NEW JERSEY - Janice Hansen
NEW ORLEANS (LA) - Wilhelmina "Willi" Cecelia Hoffman
NEW YORK - Bobby MacAdam
NORTH CAROLINA - Betsy Marie Dalton
PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Itha Duerrhammer
SOUTH CAROLINA - Billy Owens
TENNESSEE - Marian Nelson Weller
TEXAS - Joyce Theresa Courrege

Miss Congeniality  Texas

MISS AMERICA 1945

NOTE: First year the scholarship program was started

1945  September 8
41  entries

Results
1  NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Bess Myerson
2  SAN DIEGO (CA) - Phyllis Mathis
3  BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Frances Lanell Dorn
4  FLORIDA - Virginia Freeland
5  MINNESOTA - Arlene Anderson

Semi-finalists
CALIFORNIA - Polly Ellis
CHICAGO (IL) - Lee Mercer Wieland
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Dorothy Louise Powell
MARYLAND - Virginia Lee Van Sant
NORTH CAROLINA - Dorothy Louise Johnson
PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Gloria Bair
TENNESSEE - Lee Harriet Henson
TEXAS - Polly Below

Remainder
ARKANSAS - Leslie Hampton
ATLANTA (GA) - Pauline Walker
BOSTON (MA) - Claire Thibadeau
CINCINNATI (OH) - Virginia Lee Pleasant
CONNECTICUT - Sylvia Z. Shaw
DETROIT (MI) - Barbara Lee Smith
GEORGIA - Doris Joyce Coker
ILLINOIS - Beverly Ann Long
INDIANA - Betty Anna Lockyear
IOWA - Jeanne Gordon
MAINE - Virginia Trask
MASSACHUSETTS - Ruth Claire Thomas
MIAMI BEACH (FL) - Ray Evelyn Crist
MICHIGAN - Therese Mary Sullivan
MISSISSIPPI - Harriet Jane Carr
MISSOURI - Betty Ruth Ream
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Lee Corey
NEW JERSEY - Matilda Agin
NEW ORLEANS (LA) - Helen Shively
NEW YORK - June Jenkins
NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Georgina Patterson
OHIO - Julia Ann Donahue
PENNSYLVANIA - Timmie Weston
RHODE ISLAND - Mary Stevens
SOUTH CAROLINA - Margaret Neeley
UTAH - Dorothy F. Holohan
VERMONT - Mary Staikos
WISCONSIN - Eileen Christy

MISS AMERICA 1946

1946 September 7
50 entries

Results
1  CALIFORNIA - Marilyn Buferd
2  ARKANSAS - Rebecca Jane McCall
3  ATLANTA (GA) - Janey Miller
4  LOUISIANA - Marguerite Eileen McClelland
5  UTAH - Armelia Carole Ohmart

Semi-finalists
CHICAGO (IL) - Cloris Leachman
CINCINNATI (OH) - LaVonne Bond
CONNECTICUT - Joan Elizabeth Turner
FLORIDA - Jacquelyn Marie Jennings
ILLINOIS - Patricia Jean Fry
LOUISVILLE (KY) - Patricia Alden Fenton
NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Eileen Henry
NEW YORK - Violet Mellar
PENNSYLVANIA - Eleanor D. Kramer
WEST VIRGINIA - Norma Lee Salisbury
WISCONSIN - Antoine “Toni” Bernice Lunde

Remainder
ALABAMA - Emma Dale Nunnally
BALTIMORE (MD) - Virginia Martin
BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Sue Dolores Donegan
BOSTON (MA) - Paula C. Jerome
CANADA - Marion Saver
CLEVELAND (OH) - Mary Eileen Kelly
COLORADO - Raye Donnelly
DETROIT (MI) - Constance Liddicoat
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Jeanne Marie Carlson
GEORGIA - Mary Lou Henderson
GREATER PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Virginia Brown
INDIANA - Lois Marie Chitwood
IOWA - Jacqueline Means
KANSAS - Joyce Blakemore
KANSAS CITY (MO) - Nadine LaVerne Fugett
KENTUCKY - Mary Madonna Smith
MARYLAND - Dorothy C. Crockett
MASSACHUSETTS - Urania “Rae” Nicholaides
MIAMI BEACH (FL) - Jini Boyd
MICHIGAN - Ruth Lenfestey
MINNESOTA - Rosemary Gregg
MISSISSIPPI - Lennie Josephine Nobles
NEWARK (NJ) - Dorothy Callahan
NEW JERSEY - Helen Sprinitis
NEW MEXICO - Martha Bernice Cooper
NEW ORLEANS (LA) - Joyce Josephine Frink
NORTH CAROLINA - Trudy Riley
OMAHA (NE) - Marjorie Hanson
RHODE ISLAND - Marilyn A. Tripp
SOUTH CAROLINA - Anne Mae Morse
TENNESSEE - Wilda Bowman
TEXAS - D. Anne Wisener
VERMONT - Lola Jacqueline Sundberg
VIRGINIA - Bette Jean Cannon

Miss Congeniality  New York

MISS AMERICA 1947

1947 September 6
54  entries

Results
1  MEMPHIS (TN) - Barbara Jo Walker
2  MINNESOTA - Elaine Mary Campbell
3  CANADA - Margaret Marshall
4  ALABAMA - Peggy June Elder  (Miss Dixie 1947)
5  CALIFORNIA - Laura Jean Emery

Semi-finalists
ARIZONA - Wanda Jo Law
KENTUCKY - Evelyn L. Murray
MIAMI BEACH (FL) - Pepper Donna Shore
NEW JERSEY - Delores Mendes
NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Raven Malone
OREGON - Jo Ann Amorde
PITTSBURGH (PA) - Lillian Handford
TENNESSEE - Georgia Jean Cunningham
WEST VIRGINIA - Joan Elizabeth Estep
WYOMING - Dorothy June McKay

Remainder
ARKANSAS - Pam Camp
ATLANTA (GA) - Joy Elizabeth Smith
BROOKLYN (NY) - Lynn Faune
CHATTANOOGA (TN) - Dorothy Jane Cunningham
CHICAGO (IL) - Joan Hiatt
COLORADO - Joyce Haycock
CONNECTICUT - Louise Helen Bienvenu
DETROIT (MI) - Jane Rose Foster
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Margaret Augusta Wilson
FLORIDA - Eula Ann McGehee
GEORGIA - Robbie Orene Sauls
GREATER PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Kay McClane
IDAHO - Norma Joyce Briggs
ILLINOIS - Maree V. Evans
INDIANA - Beverly D. Trenary
IOWA - Ruth Janet Anderson
KANSAS - Ruth Ellen Richmond
LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CA) - Marilyn Davidson
LOUISIANA - Ruth Mary Blust
LOUISVILLE (KY) - Margaret Allen Hill
MARYLAND - Carolyn Jean Dixon
MICHIGAN - Peggy June Ellsworth
MISSISSIPPI - Kitty Blevins Bailey
MISSOURI - Mary Jean Burke
MONTANA - Carol Haffele Chaffin
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Bernice E. Loiselle
NEW YORK - Carol Lee Fredericks
NORTH CAROLINA - Alice Vivian White
OHIO - Nancy Nesbitt
OMAHA (NE) - Madalyn Joyce King
PENNSYLVANIA - Dorothy Gresh
RHODE ISLAND - Ellen DiCenzo
SOUTH CAROLINA - Margaret Jean Griffin
SOUTH DAKOTA - Roselyn Lea Anderson
TEXAS - Luna Lynn McClain
UTAH - Donna Southwick
VERMONT - Barbara Helen Campbell
VIRGINIA - Ruthellen Mears
WISCONSIN - Gladys Berkley

MISS AMERICA 1948

1948 September 11
55  entries

Results
1  MINNESOTA - Beatrice Bella “BeBe” Shopp
2  WYOMING - Carol Held
3  ALABAMA - Martha Ann Ingram
4  KANSAS - Vera J. Ralston
5  OKLAHOMA - Donna Jane Briggs

Semi-finalists
ATLANTA (GA) - Jerry Long
CHICAGO (IL) - Lois June Nettleton
DETROIT (MI) - Doris Evelyn Johnson
FLORIDA - Rosemary Carpenter
MASSACHUSETTS - Barbara Louise Laughton
MEMPHIS (TN) - Lois Jeanette Welsh
MONTANA - Patti Anne Luer
NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Connie Inge Ronde
OREGON - Joyce Davis
UTAH - Marilyn Robinson

Remainder
ARIZONA - Donna Lea McElroy
ARKANSAS - Van Louis McDaniel
BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Marjorie Orr
BOSTON (MA) - Barbara McGrath
CALIFORNIA - Reba Watterson
CANADA - Betty Jean Ferguson
COLORADO - Virginia Smith
CONNECTICUT - Fairfax Bushnell Mason
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Joann Virginia Miller
GEORGIA - Gwendolyn West
GREATER PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Betty Jane Bruce
HAWAII - Yun Tau Zane
ILLINOIS - Viola Hutmacher
INDIANA - Patti Grubbs
KENTUCKY - Mildred Hollinger
MAINE - Muriel Applebee
MARYLAND - Juanita Melrose Lookabaugh
MICHIGAN - Linda Carroll
MISSISSIPPI - Virginia Hollingsworth
MISSOURI - Dorothy Jean Smith
NEBRASKA - Betty Love Booth
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Lillian Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor
NEW JERSEY - Barbara Anderson
NEW MEXICO - Sara Bertha Young
NEW YORK - M. Yvonne Fix
NORTH CAROLINA - Patsy Ann Osborne
OHIO - Maxine Waack
OMAHA (NE) - Serena McKinney
PENNSYLVANIA - Ruth Douglas
PITTSBURGH (PA) - Sarah Cromwell
PUERTO RICO - Irma Nydia Vasquez
SOUTH CAROLINA - Esther Ruth Greene
SOUTH DAKOTA - Myrna Elaine Clemensen
TENNESSEE - Dorothy Jane Free
TEXAS - Bonnie Jean Bland
VERMONT - Jean Peatman
VIRGINIA - Bobby Joe Wilson
WASHINGTON - Lorraine May Lowder
WEST VIRGINIA - Jane Ellen Queen
WISCONSIN - Marvene Fischer

MISS AMERICA 1949

1949 September 10
52  entries

Results
1  ARIZONA - Jacque Mercer
2  MISSISSIPPI - Katherine Wright
3  ILLINOIS - Trudi Germi
4  COLORADO - Sylvia Canaday
5  CALIFORNIA - Jone Ann Pedersen

Semi-finalists
ARKANSAS - Barbara Jean Brothers
CANADA - Margaret Lynn Munn
CHICAGO (IL) - Teresa Giorgian
HAWAII - Bee Jay “Bee Jay” Johnston
KANSAS - Shirley Nan Hargiss
MICHIGAN - Dolores Jane Motter
MINNESOTA - Gloria Yvonne Burkhart
NEW JERSEY - Betty Jane Crowley
NEW YORK CITY (NY) - Loreen Ellen Osgood
WISCONSIN - Phyllis Ann Kessler

Remainder
ALABAMA - Frieda Roser
CONNECTICUT - Barbara Louise Smetana
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Mary Jane Hayes
FLORIDA - Shirley Anne Rhodes
GEORGIA - Dorothy Johnston
GREATER PHILADELPHIA (PA) - Miriam Lapayowker
INDIANA - Patricia Cunningham
IOWA - Barbara Jane Juel
KENTUCKY - Betty Haverstock
LOUISIANA - Annie Hollingsworth
MAINE - Connie Gingras
MARYLAND - Jean Crow
MASSACHUSETTS - Gloria Marie Curelli
MISSOURI - Mary Jane Stone
MONTANA - Carol Rosebel Fraser
NEBRASKA - Vanita Mae Brown
NEVADA - Carol Diane Lampe
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Flora Jane Sleeper
NEW MEXICO - Shirley Hughes
NEW YORK - Wanda Nalepa
NORTH CAROLINA - Nancy Lee Yelverton
NORTH DAKOTA - Kitty Gates Page
OHIO - Florence Bondi
OKLAHOMA - Georgine Ruth Leeka
OREGON - Beverly Faith Krueger
PENNSYLVANIA - Marlene Carozzo
PUERTO RICO - Avelina Medrano
SOUTH CAROLINA - Barrie Jean Wingard
SOUTH DAKOTA - Carol Jean Quinn
TENNESSEE - Adelyn Sumner
TEXAS - Ysleta Leissner
UTAH - June Barlow
VERMONT - Annalou Johnston
VIRGINIA - Betty Lewis
WASHINGTON - Libby Aldrich
WEST VIRGINIA - Georganne Steiss
WYOMING - Esther MacLeod