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Miss New York

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Formation
  
1921

Headquarters
  
Staten Island

Membership
  
Miss America

Type
  
Scholarship pageant

Location
  
New York

Miss New York

Website
  
Miss New York official website

The Miss New York competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of New York in the Miss America pageant. Miss New York has won the Miss America crown six times (and is the first state to produce winners three years in a row):

Contents

  • Bess Myerson (1945, first Jewish American Miss America, competed as Miss New York City)
  • Tawny Godin (Tawny Little) (1976)
  • Vanessa Williams (1984, first African American Miss America)
  • Mallory Hagan (2013)
  • Nina Davuluri (2014, first Indian American Miss America)
  • Kira Kazantsev (2015)

    • Results summary

    The year in brackets indicates the year of the Miss America competition the award/placement was garnered.

    Placements

  • Miss Americas: Bess Myerson (1945), Tawny Godin (Tawny Little) (1976), Vanessa Williams (1984), Mallory Hagan (2013), Nina Davuluri (2014), Kira Kazantsev (2015)
  • 1st runners-up: Florence Meyers (1933), Joan Kaible (1954), Marisol Montalvo (1992)
  • 2nd runners-up: Kaitlin Monte (2012), Camille Sims (2017)
  • 3rd runners-up: Lillian O'Donnell (1941), Milena Mae Miller (1943), Leigh-Taylor Smith (2009)
  • 4th runners-up: Sonja Anderson (1977), Andrea Plummer (2002)
  • Semi-finalists: Vern Hall (1935), Annyse Sherman (1942), Violet Mellar (1946), Betty Jo Dazey (1944), Eileen Henry (1946), Raven Malone (1947), Connie Inge Ronde (1948), Loreen Ellen Osgood (1949), Phyllis Anita Battleson (1951), Joan Elizabeth Kayne (1953), Bonnie Jo Marquis (1960), Kelli Krull (1980), Cheryl Flanagan (1981), Suzanne Alexander (1982), Mary-Ann Farrell (1985), Helen Goldsby (1996), Tiffany Walker (2003), Christina Ellington (2005), Claire Buffie (2011)

    • Preliminary Awards

  • Preliminary Swimsuit: Bess Myerson (1945), Bonnie Jo Marquis (1960), Vanessa Williams (1984), Tiffany Walker (2003), Leigh-Taylor Smith (2009), Alyse Zwick (2010), Kaitlin Monte (2012)
  • Preliminary Talent: Marion Mossell (1942), Bess Myerson (1945) (tie), Heather-Jo Taferner (1955) (tie), Sonja Anderson (1977), Kelli Krull (1980), Cheryl Flanagan (1981), Suzanne Alexander (1982), Vanessa Williams (1984), Mary-Ann Farrell (1985), Marisol Montalvo (1992), Helen Goldsby (1996)

    • Non-finalist Awards

  • Non-finalist Talent: Barbara Gloede (1964), Julie Just (1965), Kari Pedersen (1968), Eileen Clark (1983), Jill Privateer (1986), Mia Seminoff (1989), Lisa Marie Molella (1990), Ingrid Olsen (1993), Brandi Burkhardt (2000), Bethlene Pancoast (2007)

    • Other

  • Miss Congeniality: Violet Meller (1946), Susan Jane Talbert (1961)
  • Dr. David B. Allman Medical Scholarship: Katherine Karlsrud (1971)
  • Quality of Life Finalist: Kaitlin Monte (2012)

    • References

    Miss New York Wikipedia
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