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Miss Oregon USA

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Formation
  
1952

Headquarters
  
Portland

Membership
  
Miss USA

Name
  
Miss USA

Type
  
Beauty pageant

Location
  
Oregon

Official language
  
English

Miss Oregon USA

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

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Oregon has only had limited success at Miss USA and has never won the competition. The highest placed Miss Oregon USA was Gail Atchison who finished 2nd runner-up to Barbara Peterson in 1976. The most recent finalist was Jennifer Murphy in 2004. She is better known as a contestant on The Apprentice.

Two Miss Oregon USAs have formerly held the Miss Oregon Teen USA title and competed at Miss Teen USA.

Results summary

  • 2nd runners-up: Gail Atchison (1976)
  • Top 10: Debbie Epperson (1984), Endia Albrante (2001), Jennifer Murphy (2004)
  • Top 11: Olga Calderon (1991)
  • Top 15/16: Maralyn Turner (1956), Joyce Collin (1962), Toye Esch (1964), Maureen Bassett (1967), Laura Smith (1070)

    • Awards

  • Miss Congeniality: Denise White (1994), Gabrielle Neilan (2013)
  • Miss Photogenic: Alaina Bergsma (2012)

    • Winners

    Color key

    1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant

    References

    Miss Oregon USA Wikipedia
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