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For the article about the Miss USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...

 state pageant, see Miss Oklahoma USA
Miss Oklahoma USA
For the article about the Miss America state pageant, see Miss OklahomaThe Miss Oklahoma USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Oklahoma in the Miss USA pageant....


The Miss Oklahoma competition selects a winner to compete on behalf of Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

 in the Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 pageant. Miss Oklahoma has won the crown on five occasions. Also, in the years when city representatives were common, Norma Smallwood
Norma Smallwood
Norma Descygne Smallwood captured first place in both the bather's review and the evening gown contest and the following evening was crowned Miss America 1926....

 won, competing as Miss Tulsa, giving the state of Oklahoma a total of six crowns. Oklahoma is also one of three states to win the Miss America title back to back for two years.

Winners

Year Name Hometown Age Local Title Miss America Talent Placement at Miss America Special scholarships at Miss America Notes
2011 Betty Thompson Davenport
Davenport, Oklahoma
Davenport is a town in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 881 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Davenport is located at ....

22 Miss Oklahoma State University Irish Step Dance
2010 Emoly West
Emoly West
Emoly Ann West holds the title of Miss Oklahoma 2010 and was 4th Runner-Up in the Miss America 2011 Pageant on January 15, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada....

Edmond
Edmond, Oklahoma
Edmond is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area in the central part of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 81,405, making it the sixth largest city in the state of Oklahoma....

24 Miss Edmond LibertyFest Ballet en Pointe "Time" by Billy Porter 4th runner up Preliminary Lifestyle & Fitness Award
2009 Taylor Treat Ada
Ada, Oklahoma
Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,008 at the 2000 census. As of 2009, the city population was estimated at 17,019....

22 Miss University of Oklahoma Ballet en Pointe "Palladio
Diamond Music
Diamond Music is a 1996 album by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins.Perhaps one of Jenkins most recognized works is the first movement of the "Palladio" suite, inspired by 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio and in the style of a concerto grosso...

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Top 12 at Miss America 2010
Miss America 2010
Miss America 2010, the 89th Miss America pageant, was held at the Theatre for the Performing Arts in Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on January 30, 2010...

Quality of Life award winner selected as one of three "America's choice" contestants in the top 15 as voted on by the viewers
2008 Kelsey Cartwright Collinsville
Collinsville, Oklahoma
Collinsville is a city in Rogers and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and a part of the Tulsa, Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. It was named for Dr. A. H. Collins, an engineer and surveyor who first surveyed the land that became this community...

21 Miss Keystone Lake Lyrical Dance
2007 Makenna Smith Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...

24 Miss Oklahoma City University Vocal "Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime
Ragtime (musical)
Ragtime is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty.Based on the 1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime tells the story of three groups in America, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; Mother, the matriarch of a WASP family in...

2006 Lindsey Miller Miss Grand Lake Jazz Vocal 1st runner-up to Miss Oklahoma 2006; Assumed title when Lauren Nelson won Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 title
Lauren Nelson
Lauren Nelson
Lauren Paige Nelson is a beauty queen from Lawton, Oklahoma who holds the Miss America 2007 title. Nelson is the second consecutive Miss America and sixth in the history of Miss America to hail from this state....

Lawton
Lawton, Oklahoma
The city of Lawton is the county seat of Comanche County, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Located in the southwestern region of Oklahoma approximately southwest of Oklahoma City, it is the principal city of the Lawton Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area...

20 Miss Oklahoma State Fair Vocal "You'll Be in My Heart
You'll Be in My Heart
"You'll Be in My Heart" is a song by Phil Collins, from the 1999 Disney animated feature Tarzan. It appeared on Tarzan: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack as well as various other Disney compilations...

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Winner - Miss America 2007
Miss America 2007
Miss America 2007, the 86th Miss America, pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on January 29, 2007, which was a Monday, making it the first time that the pageant was held on a weekday, rather than the traditional Saturday....

Preliminary Swimsuit Previously Miss Oklahoma Teen 2004
2005 Jennifer Warren 21 Miss Green Country Vocal 1st runner-up to Miss Oklahoma 2005; Assumed title when Jennifer Berry won Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 title
Jennifer Berry
Jennifer Berry
Jennifer Berry-Gooden was crowned Miss America on January 21, 2006. A resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, she was the fifth Miss America from Oklahoma to hold the title....

Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...

22 Miss Grand Lake Ballet en Pointe "Within" Winner - Miss America 2006
Miss America 2006
Miss America 2006, the 85th Miss America, pageant, was held on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada on January 21, 2006.The pageant was broadcast live on CMT from the Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Aladdin Resort and Casino, the first time that the pageant was held outside Atlantic City...

Preliminary Talent, 1st runner-up Quality of Life Award
2004 Elizabeth Kinney Mooreland
Mooreland, Oklahoma
Mooreland is a town in Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,190 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Mooreland is located at ....

22 Miss Oklahoma State Fair Tap Dance "Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is a song by the rock band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the track featured on their 1980 album The Game, and also appears on the band's compilation album, Greatest Hits...

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Top 10 Semi-finalist
2003 Kelley Scott Owasso
Owasso, Oklahoma
Owasso is a city in Rogers and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma, and a northern suburb of Tulsa. The population was 28,915 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Owasso is located at...

23 Miss Oklahoma State Fair Vocal "Son of a Preacher Man
Son of a Preacher Man
"Son of a Preacher Man" is a song recorded by Dusty Springfield in September 1968 and featured on the album, Dusty in Memphis. It was written by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins. The rights to cover "Son of a Preacher Man" were originally offered to Aretha Franklin, who turned it down...

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Top 10 Semi-finalist
2002 Casey Preslar
Casey Preslar
Casey Preslar Urwin is a graduate of Oral Roberts University, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Communications with a Minor in Music. She was Miss Oklahoma 2002, 2nd-runner up to Miss America 2003, a preliminary talent award winner, the Eleanor Andrews Talent Award winner, and was voted nationwide as...

Tulsa 22 Miss Grand Lake Jazz Vocal "You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
(If You Can't Sing It) You'll Have to Swing It (Mr. Paganini)
" You'll Have to Swing It " is a song written by Sam Coslow that is strongly associated with Ella Fitzgerald....

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2nd Runner-Up Preliminary Talent Award
2001 Kaci Hundley Enid
Enid, Oklahoma
Enid is a city in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. In 2010, the population was 49,379, making it the ninth largest city in Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893, and is named after Enid, a...

21 Miss Oklahoma State Fair Vocal "Crying" Top 20 Quarter-finalist
2000 Kristin Steveson Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Broken Arrow is a city located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, primarily in Tulsa County but also with a small section of the city in western Wagoner County. It is the largest suburb of Tulsa. According to the 2010 US Census, Broken Arrow has a population of 98,850 residents...

23 Miss Tulsa State Fair Classical Vocal "Sempre Libera" from La traviata
La traviata
La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...

Non-finalist Talent Award
1999 Daneka Allen Oklahoma City 23 Miss Stroud Vocal "Respect
Respect (song)
"Respect" is a song written and originally released by Stax recording artist Otis Redding in 1965. "Respect" became a 1967 hit and signature song for R&B singer Aretha Franklin. The music in the two versions is significantly different, and through a few minor changes in the lyrics, the stories told...

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1998 Julie Payne Grandfield
Grandfield, Oklahoma
Grandfield is a city in Tillman County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,038 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Grandfield is located at ....

23 Miss Collinsville Tap Dance "Hound Dog
Hound Dog (song)
"Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton in 1952. Other early versions illustrate the differences among blues, country, and rock and roll in the mid-1950s. The 1956 remake by Elvis Presley is the best-known...

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Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award
1997 Kelli Masters Midwest City
Midwest City, Oklahoma
Midwest City is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 54,371, making it the eighth largest city in the state....

24 Miss Oklahoma City University Baton Twirling "Gonna Fly Now
Gonna Fly Now
"Gonna Fly Now", also known as "Theme from Rocky", is the theme song from the movie Rocky, composed by Bill Conti with lyrics by Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins, and performed by DeEtta Little and Nelson Pigford...

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Non-finalist Talent Award
1996 Amy Duncan Oklahoma City 23 Miss University of Oklahoma Dramatic Vocal "Papa, Can You Hear Me?
Papa, Can You Hear Me?
"Papa, Can You Hear Me?" is a 1983 song, performed by Barbra Streisand for the film Yentl. The song was composed by Michel Legrand, with lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman....

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Non-finalist Talent Award
1995 Meighen Bradfield Successor to crown
Shawntel Smith
Shawntel Smith
Shawntel Smith is an American beauty pageant contestant, who was Miss America in 1996. She was born in Muldrow, Oklahoma.-External links:*...

Muldrow
Muldrow, Oklahoma
Muldrow is a town in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 3,104 at the 2000 census....

24 Miss Tulsa State Fair Vocal "The Woman in the Moon" from A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born (1976 film)
A Star Is Born is a 1976 American rock music musical film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ascending while his goes into decline...

Winner
1994 Tiffany Craig Norman
Norman, Oklahoma
Norman is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and is located south of downtown Oklahoma City. It is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, Norman was to have 110,925 full-time residents, making it the third-largest city in Oklahoma and the...

24 Miss Norman Vocal "If Only"
1993 Elizabeth Moseley Norman 22 Miss Shawnee Flute Solo "Dueling Banjos"
1992 DuSharme Carter Oklahoma City 21 Miss Oklahoma City University Vocal "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" 4th Runner-Up Later Miss Oklahoma USA
Miss Oklahoma USA
For the article about the Miss America state pageant, see Miss OklahomaThe Miss Oklahoma USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Oklahoma in the Miss USA pageant....

 1995, top 12 at Miss USA 1995
Miss USA 1995
Miss USA 1995, the forty-fourth Miss USA pageant, was held at South Padre Island, Texas culminating in the final competition and crowning on February 10, 1995....

1991 Gina Lynne Smith Stillwater
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater is a city in north-central Oklahoma at the intersection of U.S. 177 and State Highway 51. It is the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 45,688. Stillwater is the principal city of the Stillwater Micropolitan Statistical...

21 Miss Stroud Vocal Medley "Somewhere
Somewhere (song)
"Somewhere" is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story which was made into a film in 1961. The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and takes a phrase from the slow movement of Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto, which forms the start of the...

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1990 Cynthia White Oklahoma City 24 Miss Stroud Piano Solo "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor, Op. 43 is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It is written for solo piano and symphony orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto. The work was written at Villa Senar, according to the score, from July 3 to August 18, 1934...

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Top 10 Semi-finalist
1989 Tamara Marler Tulsa 26 Miss Norman Vocal "Since I Fell for You
Since I Fell for You
"Since I Fell for You" is a jazz and pop standard. The blues ballad was composed by Buddy Johnson in 1945 and was first popularized by his sister, Ella Johnson, with Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra. The biggest hit version was recorded by Lenny Welch in 1963, reaching number four on the U.S...

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Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award
1988 Lori Kelley Clinton
Clinton, Oklahoma
Clinton is a city in Custer and Washita counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 9,033 at the 2010 census.-History:The community began in 1899 when two men, J.L. Avant and E.E...

23 Miss Norman Classical Vocal "Una Voce Poco Fa" from The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville
The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music...

2nd Runner-Up Preliminary Talent Award
1987 Leesa Cornett Newcastle
Newcastle, Oklahoma
Newcastle is the largest city in McClain County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. The population was 7,685 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Newcastle is located at ....

20 Miss Norman Vocal "If He Walked Into My Life" from Mame Non-finalist Talent Award
1986 Mignon Merchant Oklahoma City 25 Miss Lake Hudson Stand-Up Comedy Non-finalist Talent Award Previously Miss Oklahoma USA
Miss Oklahoma USA
For the article about the Miss America state pageant, see Miss OklahomaThe Miss Oklahoma USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Oklahoma in the Miss USA pageant....

 1983, top 10 at Miss USA 1983
1985 Felicia Ferguson Oklahoma City 24 Miss Grand Lake Vocal "You Don't Know Me"
1984 Julie Sunday Owasso 21 Miss Owasso Piano
1983 Trelynda Kerr Moore
Moore, Oklahoma
Moore is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma and is part of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. The population was 55,081 at the 2010 census, making it the seventh largest city in the state of Oklahoma....

21 Miss Grand Lake Country Vocal Medley "Stand by Your Man
Stand By Your Man
"Stand by Your Man" is a song co-written by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill and originally recorded by Tammy Wynette, released as a single in September 1968 in the USA...

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1982 Nancy Chapman Altus
Altus, Oklahoma
Altus is a city in Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 19,813 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Jackson County....

21 Miss Oklahoma City Piano Solo "Fireworks by Debussy
Preludes (Debussy)
Claude Debussy's Préludes are two sets of pieces for solo piano. They are divided into two separate livres, or books, of twelve preludes each. Unlike previous collections of preludes, like those of JS Bach and Chopin, Debussy's do not follow a strict pattern of key signatures.Each book was written...

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4th Runner-Up
1981 April Clayton Cameron
Cameron, Oklahoma
Cameron is a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 312 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cameron is located at ....

22 Miss Tulsa State Fair Ballet en Pointe "The Blue Danube
The Blue Danube
The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 , a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866...

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Toured with Miss America USO Troupe
1980 Kathleen Allin Successor to crown
Susan Powell Elk City
Elk City, Oklahoma
Elk City is a city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 11,693 at the 2010 census. Elk City is located on Interstate 40 and Historic U.S. Route 66 in Western Oklahoma, approximately west of Oklahoma City and east of Amarillo....

21 Miss Oklahoma City Classical Vocal "The Telephone Aria
The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois
The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois is an English-language comic opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti, both words and music. It was written for production by the Ballet Society and was first presented on a double bill with Menotti's The Medium at the Heckscher Theater, New York City, February...

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Winner Preliminary Talent Award (tie)
1979 Jill Elmore Tulsa 23 Miss Grand Lake Classical Vocal "Art Is Calling For Me" from The Enchantress by Victor Herbert
Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...

Non-finalist Talent Award
1978 Kendi Brown Oklahoma City 21 Miss Warr Acres Tap Dance "Medley of songs by Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

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1977 Ellen Wight Tulsa 22 Miss Oklahoma City University Classical Vocal "The Jewel Song" from Faust
Faust (opera)
Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1...

Died in December 1979 (Source: OKCU Focus - Summer 2003)
1976 Lucia Miller Buffalo
Buffalo, Oklahoma
Buffalo is a town in Harper County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,299 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Harper County.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, Buffalo has a total area of , all land.-Climate:...

21 Miss Tulsa State Fair Trumpet Solo "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
" Bill Bailey", originally titled "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" is a popular song published in 1902. It is commonly referred to as simply "Bill Bailey"....

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1975 Lisa Reagan
Lisa Reagan
Lisa Reagan Love is a singer based in Middleburg, Virginia. She has performed in such places as the White House, the Kennedy Center, and various concert halls around the world...

Oklahoma City 19 Miss Warr Acres Vocal Medley "As Time Goes By
As Time Goes By (song)
"As Time Goes By" is a song written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931. It became most famous in 1942 when it was sung by the character Sam in the movie Casablanca. The song was voted #2 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs special, commemorating the best songs in film. It was used as a fanfare for Warner...

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I Got Love
I Got Love is the debut album by singer Melba Moore, released in 1970. starting this album, which the singer was nominated for new artist at the Grammy Awards in 1971...

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former wife of former Congressman Mickey Edwards
Mickey Edwards
Marvin Henry "Mickey" Edwards is a former Republican congressman who served Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 1977 to 1993.-Education and early career:...

1974 Debbie Knight Warr Acres
Warr Acres, Oklahoma
Warr Acres is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. It was established after World War II by C.B. Warr, a dynamic businessman, builder, and commercial developer. The population was 9,735 at the 2000 census.-History:The Warr Acres...

22 Miss Warr Acres Piano Solo "Minuet in G Major"
1973 Andrea Hanson Tahlequah
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Tahlequah is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It was founded as a capital of the original Cherokee Nation in 1838 to welcome those Cherokee forced west on the Trail of Tears. The city's population was 15,753 at the 2010 census. It...

21 Miss Tulsa State Fair Piano / Vocal "The Homeland Aria" from Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.- Literary sources :...

Top 10 Semi-finalist
1972 Debbie Giannopoulos Oklahoma City 20 Miss Warr Acres Classical Singing from Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...

1971 Susan Supernaw Tulsa 20 Miss Phillips University Acrobatic Jazz Ballet Special Judges Award
1970 Judy Adams Cushing
Cushing, Oklahoma
Cushing is a city in Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 8,371 at the 2000 census.The city was established after the Land Run of 1891 by Billy Rae Little. It was named for Marshall Cushing, private secretary to U.S. Postmaster General John Wanamaker...

20 Miss Oklahoma State University Violin "The Hot Canary" arranged by Florian ZaBach
Florian ZaBach
Florian ZaBach was an American musician and TV personality.His recording of "The Hot Canary" sold a million copies and reached the top 15 on the Pop charts in 1951. "Believe It or Not" timed his violin performance of "The Flight of the Bumblebee" and wrote, "he plays 12.8 notes per second ......

Top 10 Semi-finalist Preliminary Talent Award
1969 Jeanne Gambrell Tulsa 22 Miss University of Tulsa Ballet / Jazz Dance "Hair" & "Aquarius" from Hair
Hair (musical)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...

1968 Beverly Drew Harrah
Harrah, Oklahoma
Harrah is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Located east of downtown Oklahoma City, Harrah had a population of 5,148 people as of 2009.-Geography:...

22 Miss Shawnee Vocal / Baton Twirling "Step to the Rear
The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way
"The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way" is the fight song of the University of South Carolina. It was adapted from the musical number "Step to the Rear" in the Broadway show How Now, Dow Jones and the lyrics were written by Gamecocks football coach Paul Dietzel.-History:USC band director James...

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1967 Carolyn Denton Muskogee
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee is a city in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the county seat of Muskogee County, and home to Bacone College. The population was 38,310 at the 2000 census, making it the eleventh-largest city in Oklahoma....

19 Miss Oklahoma State University Vocal "Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows
Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows
"Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows" is a popular song sung by Lesley Gore. It was originally released on Gore's 1963 album Lesley Gore Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts. The song was composed by Marvin Hamlisch. It was arranged by Claus Ogerman and produced by Quincy Jones. The tune peaked at #13 on the...

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1966 Sandy Ferguson Successor to crown
Jane Ann Jayroe Laverne
Laverne, Oklahoma
Laverne is a town in Harper County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,344 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Laverne is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land...

19 Miss Oklahoma City Vocal / Orchestra Conducting "1-2-3" Winner Preliminary Talent Award
1965 Sandra Curtis Tulsa 20 Miss Tulsa Dramatic Reading "Sorry Wrong Number"
1964 Jane Hitch Guymon
Guymon, Oklahoma
Guymon is a city in and the county seat of Texas County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11,442, making it the largest city on the Oklahoma Panhandle. Corporate hog farms and cattle feedlots dominate its economy....

18 Miss Guymon Dance
1963 Cheryl Semrad Hassman Waukomis
Waukomis, Oklahoma
Waukomis is a town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,261 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Waukomis is located at ....

Miss Okeene Speech "May I Teach Others to Live"
1962 Billi Kay Smith Stroud
Stroud, Oklahoma
Stroud is a city in Creek and Lincoln counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 2,758 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Stroud is located at ....

19 Miss Stroud Dramatic Reading
1961 Dana Darlene Reno Stigler
Stigler, Oklahoma
Stigler is a city in Haskell County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,731 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Haskell County.-Geography:Stigler is located at...

20 Miss Stigler Oration with Indian Sign Language contestant in the 1963 Maid of Cotton Pageant
1960 Donna Kay Creed Enid 20 Miss Enid Vocal "The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music (song)
“The Sound of Music” is the title song from The Sound of Music, composed by Richard Rodgers to lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was originally sung by Mary Martin in the 1959 stage musical of the same name. It was sung by Julie Andrews in the 1961 film, with a reprise by the Von Trapp family...

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1959 Mary Ann Hazelton Tulsa 19 Piano Non-finalist Talent Award
1958 Anita Bryant
Anita Bryant
Anita Jane Bryant is an American singer, former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and gay rights opponent. She scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses", which reached #5...

Tulsa 18 Vocal "When the Boys Talk About the Girls" 2nd Runner-up
1957 Mary Nancy Denner Alva
Alva, Oklahoma
Alva is a city in Woods County, Oklahoma, along the Salt Fork Arkansas River. The population was 4,945 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Woods County....

Poetry Recitation "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...

2nd Runner-up
1956 LaDonna J. Kramer Loyal
Loyal, Oklahoma
Loyal is a town in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 81 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Loyal is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land....

Piano Also competed in the 1956 Maid of Cotton Pageant
1955 Ann Campbell Oklahoma City Speech & Furniture Design Display 4th Runner-up Preliminary Swimsuit Award
1954 Charlavan Baker Oklahoma City Dress Design
1953 Lorene Washburn Tulsa Vocal
1952 Shirley Barbour Tulsa Drama Miss Congeniality
1951 Bobby Jene Simmons Oklahoma City Classical Vocal "Je Veux Vivre" from Roméo et Juliette
Roméo et Juliette
Roméo et Juliette is an opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique , Paris on 27 April 1867...

Semi-Finalist
1950 Louise O'Brien Tulsa Vocal "Twas Only An Irishman's Dream" 4th runner-up
1949 Georgine R. Leeka
Georgine R. Leeka
Georgine Leeka was "Miss Oklahoma" in 1949, and represented her state in the Miss America Pageant . She later married Clyde Jones, from Tennessee, and by 2011 had been living in Huntsville, Alabama since 1961. They have five children, fourteen grandchildren, and four great grandchildren...

Tulsa
1948 Donna Briggs Tulsa Painting Display 4th Runner-up
1943 Joan Marceille Hawk Oklahoma City
1941 Mifaunwy Dolores Shunatona Tulsa Semi-finalist Miss Congeniality Third Native American to compete at Miss America
1940 Ada Martyne Wood Oklahoma City Semi-finalist Second Native American to compete at Miss America,
1939 Bettye Cornelia Avert Oklahoma City Original Piano & Vocal "Wondering & Dreaming" 1st runner-up
1938 Marjorie Ann Adams Ada
1933 Joanna Alcorn 16 she withdrew from the competition due to appendicitis
1927 No Miss Oklahoma Virginia Claire Howard competed as Miss Tulsa and placed as a Finalist in the pageant.
1926 Norma Smallwood
Norma Smallwood
Norma Descygne Smallwood captured first place in both the bather's review and the evening gown contest and the following evening was crowned Miss America 1926....

Tulsa 17 N/A Winner - Miss America 1926
Miss America 1926
Miss America 1926, the 6th Miss America pageant, was held at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 10, 1926. In selecting the new Miss America, it was the opinion of the judges that not only did the winner have an excellent figure but also possessed a smile like that of...

Swimsuit & Evening Gown 1st Native American Miss America, competed as "Miss Tulsa" in the Miss America Pageant.
1925 No Miss Oklahoma Fern Marlow competed as Miss Oklahoma City and Sue Starkey competed as Miss Tulsa.
1924 No Miss Oklahoma Willie Mae Stockton competed as Miss Oklahoma City and placed as a semi-finalist in the pageant. Rose Everett competed as Miss Tulsa.
1923 No Miss Oklahoma Mary Dean Overly competed as Miss Oklahoma City and Catherine Crosby competed as Miss Tulsa. They both finished as semi-finalists in the Miss America Pageant.

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