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Miss Iowa USA

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Formation
  
1952

Headquarters
  
Des Moines

Membership
  
Miss USA

Type
  
Beauty pageant

Location
  
Iowa

Official language
  
English

Miss Iowa USA

The Miss Iowa USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Iowa in the Miss USA pageant.

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While Iowa has not been greatly successful in the past four decades, they were one of the most consistent states in the first decade of the pageant's existence. The second Miss USA to win the Miss Universe Crown was Carol Morris of Iowa in 1956.

Jamie Solinger, Miss Teen USA 1992 and Miss Iowa USA 1998, crowned her sister Jaclyn Solinger as Miss Iowa USA 1999.

Placements

  • Winners: Carol Morris (1956) (Miss Universe 1956)
  • 5th Runner Up: Carlyn Bradarich (2014)
  • Top 10: Jensie Grigsby (2000)
  • Top 12: Melissa Grimm (1987), Jan Hoyer (1993)
  • Top 14/15: Judy Hall (1957), Kay Nielson (1959), Trudy Shulkin (1960)
  • Top 19/20: Marilyn Shonka (1953), Ione Lucken (1954)

    • Awards

  • Miss Congeniality: Dana Ruth Mintzer (1983), Melissa Grimm (1987), Rebecca Hodge (2012)

    • Winners

    Color key

    1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

    References

    Miss Iowa USA Wikipedia
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