Miss Mississippi
For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Mississippi USA.
Former Miss Mississippis at the 2007 50th anniversary of the pageant
Kimberly Morgan, Miss Mississippi 2007
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Toni Seawright, Miss Mississippi 1987
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Patricia McRaney crowning Annice Jernigan, 1961
Lynda Lee Mead, Miss Mississippi 1959 and Miss America 1960
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Mary Ann Mobley, Miss Mississippi 1958
Miss Mississippi is a scholarship pageant and a preliminary of Miss America. The contest began in 1934, has been held in Vicksburg since 1958, and provides more money than any other scholarship pageant in the Miss America Organization.
Four Miss Mississippis have won the Miss America crown: Mary Ann Mobley (1959), Lynda Lee Mead (1960), Cheryl Prewitt (1980), and Susan Akin (1986).
Hattiesburg is home to nine Miss Mississippis; more than any other city/town.
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Jasmine Murray | Columbus | 22 | Miss Riverland | Vocal "Something's Got a Hold on Me" | Top 10 | Quality of Life Finalist | 3rd African American titleholder, Miss Mississippi's Outstanding Teen 2007, American Idol season 8 finalist |
| 2013 | Chelsea Rick | Fulton | 23 | Miss Amory Railroad Festival | Vocal "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" | Top 15 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 2012 | Marie Wicks | Ocean Springs | 22 | Miss Dixie | Piano "Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2011 | Mary Margaret Roark[1] | Cleveland | 20 | Miss North Central Mississippi | Piano "Nostradamus" by Tonci Huljic | |||
| 2010 | Sarah Beth James | Madison | 20 | Miss Metro Jackson | Piano "Piano Fantasy" by William Joseph | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2009 | Anna Tadlock | McCool | 23 | Miss New South | Vocal "A New Life" from Jekyll & Hyde | |||
| 2008 | Christine Kozlowski | D'Iberville | 19 | Miss Gulf Coast | Jazz Dance | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | First Latino Miss Mississippi | |
| 2007 | Kimberly Morgan | Oxford | 24 | Miss Heritage | Vocal "God Bless the Child" | Top 16 | Second African American to compete as Miss Mississippi | |
| 2006 | Taryn Foshee | Clinton | 21 | Miss Byram Tri County | Piano "El Cumbanchero" by Rafael Hernández Marín | 3rd runner-up | ||
| 2005 | Kristian Dambrino | Grenada | 20 | Miss Grenada County | Original Vocal & Piano Composition "Pearlington's Prayer" | |||
| 2004 | Jalin Wood | Waynesboro | 23 | Miss Metro Jackson | Piano "Cumana" | Miss Mississippi USA 2007 | ||
| 2003 | Allison Kellogg | Madison | 22 | Miss Madison County | Ballet en Pointe "The Magic Bird of Fire" | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1999 | ||
| 2002 | Jennifer Adcock | Hattiesburg | 22 | Miss West Central Mississippi | Piano "Rhapsody in Blue" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1998, Miss Mississippi USA 2005 and Top 10 at Miss USA 2005 |
| 2001 | Becky Pruett | Laurel | 22 | Miss Deep South | Vocal "Whatever Lola Wants" | Top 20 | Preliminary Talent Award, Quality of Life 2nd runner-up | |
| 2000 | Christy May | Pontotoc | 24 | Miss Pontotoc | Piano "Theme from The Apartment" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1999 | Heather Soriano | Philadelphia | 22 | Miss East Central Mississippi | Vocal / Dance "Trouble" from Smokey Joe's Cafe | Non-finalist Talent Award | Miss Mississippi USA 2002 | |
| 1998 | Melinda King | Waynesboro | 22 | Miss Hattiesburg | Vocal "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" | |||
| 1997 | Myra Barginear | Grenada | 23 | Miss West Central | Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville | 2nd runner-up | Allman Medical Scholarship | |
| 1996 | Kari Litton | Pontotoc | 23 | Miss New South | Vocal "Cry" | Top 10 | ||
| 1995 | Monica Louwerens | Greenville | 21 | Miss Magnolia | Vocal "Vanilla Ice Cream" from She Loves Me | Top 10 | Rembrandt Award for Mentorship | |
| 1994 | Rebecca Blouin | Batesville | 23 | Miss Dixieland | Classical Vocal "Quando me'n vo'" | Top 10 | ||
| 1993 | Lenena Holder | Booneville | 24 | Miss Magnolia | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1992 | Kandace Williams | Tupelo | 23 | Miss Tupelo | Vocal "Ain't It Good" from Children of Eden | |||
| 1991 | Mary Allison Hurdle | Holly Springs | 24 | Miss DeSoto County | Classical Vocal "Chi Il Bel Sogno di Doretta" from La Rondine | 4th runner-up | ||
| 1990 | Beth Howell | Clinton | 21 | Miss Dixie | Magic Act | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1987 | |
| 1989 | Cherry Busby | Tupel | 19 | Miss Tupelo | Vocal "My Funny Valentine" | |||
| 1988 | Carla Haag | Hattiesburg | 23 | Miss Dixie | Vocal Medley "Here's to the Band" & "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1983 |
| 1987 | Toni Seawright | Moss Point | 23 | Miss Mississippi University for Women | Popular Vocal "I'm Going All the Way" | 4th runner-up | First African American Miss Mississippi | |
| 1986 | Kimberly McGuffee | Mendenhall | 23 | Miss Lamar County | Popular Vocal "Inseparable" | Top 10 | ||
| 1985 | Nan Sumrall | Hattiesburg | Miss Hattiesburg | Successor to crown. Known now as Nan Kelley, host on Great American Country TV. | ||||
| Susan Akin | Meridian | 21 | Miss University | Vocal "You're My World" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1984 | Kathy Manning | Drew | 22 | Miss University of Mississippi | Country Vocal "Crazy" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Miss Mississippi USA 1987 and Top 10 at Miss USA 1987 |
| 1983 | Wanda Geddie | Hattiesburg | 24 | Miss William Carey College | Vocal "More Than You Know" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1982 | Dianne Evans | Taylorsville | 22 | Miss William Carey College | Vocal "Stormy Weather" | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1981 | Karen Hopson | Vicksburg | 21 | Miss Vicksburg | Character Ballet en Pointe "Overture from Annie" | Top 10 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Her mother is the vice president of the Miss Mississippi Corporation and her father is the chairman of the Miss Mississippi Board of Trustees. |
| 1980 | Donna Pope | McNeil | 24 | Miss Picayune | Ballet "Overture from Oklahoma!" | 2nd runner-up (tie) | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe |
| 1979 | Sherye Simmons | Jackson | Successor to crown | |||||
| Cheryl Prewitt | Ackerman | 22 | Miss Starkville | Vocal / Piano "Don't Cry Out Loud" | Winner | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | ||
| 1978 | Cheri Brown | Meridian | 21 | Miss Oxford | Popular Vocal "Evergreen" | Preliminary Swimsuit Award (tie) | Miss Mississippi USA 1980 | |
| 1977 | Mary Donnelly | Oxford | 19 | Miss University | Vocal "The Good Songs" | Wife of Miss America Chairman of the Board, Sam Haskell | ||
| 1976 | Bobbye Wood | Hattiesburg | 19 | Miss William Carey College | Vocal "Starting Here, Starting Now" | |||
| 1975 | Mollie Magee | Mendenhall | 19 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Popular Vocal "Lights on the Hill" | Contestant at Miss Teenage America 1972 | ||
| 1974 | Diane Bounds | Gulfport | 21 | Miss Mississippi State University | Popular Vocal "When You Smile" | |||
| 1973 | Kathleen Coole | Gulfport | 19 | Miss Mississippi State College for Women | Vocal Medley "Everything's Alright" & "I Don't Know How to Love Him" | |||
| 1972 | Glenda Meadows | Richton | 23 | Miss Richton | Vocal Medley "Am I Blue?" & "I'd Rather Be Blue" | |||
| 1971 | Jennifer Blair | Tupelo | 21 | Miss Mississippi State University | Popular Vocal "I Wish You Love" | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1970 | Christine McClamroch | Columbus | 21 | Miss Columbus | Vocal Medley "Cabaret", "Try to Remember", & "You'll Never Walk Alone" | 3rd runner-up | ||
| 1969 | Jane Foshee | Hattiesburg | 19 | Miss Hattiesburg | Vocal / Soft Shoe Dance "Makin' Whoopee" | Mississippi's Junior Miss 1967 | ||
| 1968 | Mary Mills | McComb | 19 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Piano Comedy Presentation "Habanera" & "La Poupée Valsante" by Fritz Kreisler | |||
| 1967 | Joan Myers | Forest | 20 | Miss Mississippi College | Speech & Display of Original Art "Doctor Zhivago" | 1st runner-up | Featured performer on the Miss America 1968 telecast | |
| 1966 | Robbie Robertson | Hattiesburg | 20 | Miss University of Southern Mississippi | Dramatic Reading "Adam Bede" by George Eliot | Non-finalist Talent Award | Top 10 at Maid of Cotton 1966 | |
| 1965 | Patricia Puckett | Columbus | 20 | Miss Columbus | Vocal "I Ain't Down Yet" from The Unsinkable Molly Brown | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | Featured Performer on the Miss America 1966 telecast |
| 1964 | Judy Simono | Vicksburg | 20 | Miss Vicksburg | Classical Ballet "Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty" | |||
| 1963 | Jan Nave | McComb | Miss Mississippi State College for Women | Contemporary Dance | ||||
| 1962 | Charlotte Ann Carroll | Walthall | 19 | Miss Eupora | Comedy Song & Dance Routine "Olive Oyl" | Top 10 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1961 | Annice Jernigan | New Albany | 21 | Miss University of Mississippi | Piano Medley | |||
| 1960 | Patricia McRaney | McComb | 20 | Miss McComb | Speech & Art Presentation | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1959 | Betty Porter | Brookhaven | Successor to crown | |||||
| Lynda Lee Mead | Natchez | 20 | Miss University | Original Dramatic Act "Schizophrenia" | Winner | |||
| 1958 | Margie Wilson | Itta Bena | Successor to crown | |||||
| Mary Ann Mobley | Brandon | 19 | Vocal Medley & Dance "Un Bel Di" & "There'll Be Some Changes Made" | Winner | Preliminary Talent Award | Contestant at Maid of Cotton 1958 | ||
| 1957 | Mary Allen | Yazoo City | Dance & Art Presentation | |||||
| 1956 | Martha Tisdale | Hattiesburg | Drama | |||||
| 1955 | Carolyn Cochran | Lucedale | Dramatic Monologue | |||||
| 1954 | Celeste Luckett | Clarksdale | Drama | Contestant at Maid of Cotton 1955 | ||||
| 1953 | Suzanne Dugger | Picayune | Vocal Medley & Dance "Bill" & "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey" | 4th runner-up | ||||
| 1952 | Dora Livingston | Yazoo City | ||||||
| 1951 | Jessie Morgan | Newton | Ballet | Top 15 | ||||
| 1950 | Annie Roberts | Hattiesburg | ||||||
| 1949 | Katherine Wright | Pascagoula | Dramatic Sketch "Hagar" | 1st runner-up | ||||
| 1948 | Virginia Hollingsworth | Kosciusko | ||||||
| 1947 | Kitty Bailey | Oxford | Painting | |||||
| 1946 | Lennie Nobles | Greenwood | Dance | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||||
| 1945 | Harriet Carr | Marks | Stand-up Comedy | |||||
| 1944 | Sarah Topp | Tupelo | ||||||
| 1943 | Arminta Scott | Corinth | ||||||
| 1942 | Dorothy Fox | Columbus | Miss Congeniality | |||||
| 1941 | Madeline Smith | Winona | ||||||
| 1940 | Carolyn Simon | Greenvill | Successor to crown | |||||
| Martha Tickel | Vicksburg, Mississippi | |||||||
| 1939 | Doris Coggins | Baldwyn | Miss Congeniality | |||||
| 1938 | Frances Sykes | Aberdeen | ||||||
| 1937 | Virginia Riley | West Point | ||||||
| 1936 | Rachel Smith | Booneville | ||||||
| 1935 | LeFrance Boyett | Sumner | ||||||
| 1934 | Madolyn Hardy | Belzoni | No Miss America 1934 pageant | |||||
| 1933 | Dorothy Ely | 24 | Top 18 | |||||
| 1927 | No Miss Mississippi | Phyllis Hunt competed as Miss Biloxi. | ||||||
| 1926 | No Miss Mississippi | Mabel Riley competed as Miss Biloxi. | ||||||
| 1925 | No Miss Mississippi | Laurice McFarland competed as Miss Biloxi and placed as a Finalist. | ||||||
| 1924 | No Miss Mississippi | Vivian Ruth Shaddinger competed as Miss Biloxi and Mabel Batson competed as Miss Jackson. | ||||||
References
- ↑ "Mary Margaret Roark reigns in state pageant". Clarion Ledger. July 2, 2011.
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