Miss Mississippi
Miss Mississippi is a scholarship pageant and a preliminary of Miss America.
Four Miss Mississippis have won the Miss America crown: Mary Ann Mobley (1959), Lynda Lee Mead (1960), Cheryl Prewitt (1980), and Susan Akin (1986).
List of Miss Mississippi winners
- 1934 - Madolyn Hardy, Belzoni
- 1935 - LeFrance Boyett, Sumner
- 1936 - Rachel Ann Smith, Booneville
- 1937 - Virginia Helen Riley, West Point
- 1938 - Frances Carlisle Sykes, Aberdeen
- 1939 - Doris Coggins, Baldwyn
- 1940 - Carolyn Simon, Greenville
- 1941 - Madeline Theresa Smith, Winona
- 1942 - Dorothy Elizabeth Fox, Columbus
- 1943 - Arminta Scott, Corinth
- 1944 - Sarah Ann Topp, Tupelo
- 1945 - Harrit Jane Carr, Marks
- 1946 - Lennie Nobles, Greenwood
- 1947 - Kitty Blevins Bailey, Oxford
- 1948 - Virginia Hollingsworth, Kosciusko
- 1949 - Katherine Wright, Pascagoula
- 1950 - Anie Laurie Roberts, Hattiesburg
- 1951 - Jesse Wynn Morgan, Newton
- 1952 - Dora Lee Livingston, Yazoo City
- 1953 - Susan Dugger, Picayune
- 1954 - Celeste Hill Luckett, Clarksdale
- 1955 - Carolyn Cochran, Lucedale
- 1956 - Martha Tisdale, Hattiesburg
- 1957 - Mary Imogene Allen, Yazoo City
- 1958 - Margie Lou Wilson, Itta Bena
- 1958 - Mary Ann Mobley, Brandon†
- 1959 - Betty Jane Porter, Brookhaven
- 1959 - Lynda Lee Mead, Natchez†
- 1960 - Patricia McRaney, McComb
- 1961 - Annice Jernigan, New Albany
- 1962 - Charlotte Ann Carroll, Eupora
- 1963 - Jan Nave, McComb
- 1964 - Judy Simono, Vicksburg
- 1965 - Patricia Alice Puckett, Columbus
- 1966 - Robbie Robertson, Hattiesburg
- 1967 - Joan Stephanie Myers, Forest
- 1968 - Mary Linda Mills, McComb
- 1969 - Jane Carol Foshee, Hattiesburg
- 1970 - Christine McClamroch, Columbus
- 1971 - Jennifer Jo Blair, Tupelo
- 1972 - Glenda Cheryl Meadows, Richton
- 1973 - Kathleen Ann Coole, Gulfport
- 1974 - Diane Bounds, Gulfport
- 1975 - Mollie Magee, Mendenhall
- 1976 - Bobbye Wood, Hattiesburg
- 1977 - Mary Donnelly, Oxford
- 1978 - Cheri Brown, Meridian
- 1979 - Cheryl Prewitt, Ackerman†
- 1979 - Sherye Simmons, Jackson
- 1980 - Donna Pope, McNeil
- 1981 - Karen Hopson, Vicksburg
- 1982 - Dianne Evans, Taylorsville
- 1983 - Wanda Gayle Geddie, Hattiesburg
- 1984 - Kathy Manning, Drew
- 1985 - Nan Sumrall, Hattiesburg
- 1985 - Susan Akin, Meridian†
- 1986 - Kimberly McGuffee, Mendenhall
- 1987 - Toni Seawright, Moss Point‡
- 1988 - Carla Haag, Hattiesburg
- 1989 - Cherry Busby, Tupelo
- 1990 - Beth Howell, Clinton
- 1991 - Missy Hurdle, Holly Springs
- 1992 - Kandace Williams, Tupelo
- 1993 - Lenena Holder, Booneville
- 1994 - Rebecca Blouin, Batesville
- 1995 - Monica Louwerens, Greenville
- 1996 - Kari Litton, Pontotoc
- 1997 - Myra Barginear, Grenada
- 1998 - Melinda King, Waynesboro
- 1999 - Heather Soriano, Philadelphia
- 2000 - Christy May, Pontotoc
- 2001 - Becky Pruett, Laurel
- 2002 - Jennifer Adcock, Hattiesburg
- 2003 - Allison Kellogg, Madison
- 2004 - Jalin Wood, Waynesboro
- 2005 - Kristian Dambrino, Grenada
- 2006 - Taryn Foshee, Clinton
Notes
- †Miss America winner
- ‡Seawright was the first (and as of 2006, the only) African-American woman to win Miss Mississippi.
- The city of Hattiesburg lays claim to the most Miss Mississippis: nine.
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