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Formation
  
1952

Headquarters
  
Kansas City

Membership
  
Miss USA

Type
  
Beauty pageant

Location
  
Missouri

Official language
  
English

Miss Missouri USA

The Miss Missouri USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Missouri in the Miss USA pageant. In 1993, Missouri joined the Vanbros group of state pageants for the Miss USA and Teen USA system.

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Missouri has had only one Miss USA, Shandi Finnessey, who placed as 1st runner-up to Jennifer Hawkins of Australia in the Miss Universe 2004 pageant.

Three Miss Missouri USAs have competed at Miss America, including Finnessey who is one of only two Miss USA winners since 1980 to win the Miss USA title. Six former Miss Teen USA delegates have also won the title, equalling Indiana and Virginia for the most crossovers, although both Indiana and Missouri have had titleholders who competed in a different state at Miss Teen USA.

Placements

  • Miss USA's: Shandi Finnessey (2004)
  • 2nd runners-up: Carolyn Carlew (1952), Sandra Lee Marlin (1963), Melanie Breedlove (1998)
  • 3rd runners-up: Nancy Rebecca (1971), Sandy Percival (1984), Dawn Fonseca (1987)
  • 4th runners-up: Karen Hendrix (1967), Larissa Meek (2001)
  • Top 10: Amy Ruth Coverdale (1985), Amber Seyer (2007), Candice Crawford (2008), Ashley Strohmier (2010), Sydnee Stottlemyre (2016)
  • Top 12: Dorothy Ann McElven (1974), Nancy LaRose (1975), Donna Hibbitts (1976), Shelly Lehman (1994), Britt Powell (1995)
  • Top 15: Marilyn Jean Stalcup (1960)
  • Top 16: Hope Driskill (2011)

    • Winners

    Color key

    1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

    References

    Miss Missouri USA Wikipedia
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