Miss America predates Miss USA by 31 years. The first pageant ... It was won by a 16-year-old named Margaret Gorman, competing as Miss Washington, DC. The Miss America website states that ...

is on a visit to her mother in this city, having returned from Europe, where she accompanied Miss Portia Washington, daughter of Booker T. Washington, to Berlin, where she will study music.

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Miss USA 2013 Erin Brady worked an an accountant before she was crowned. Miss Washington 2013 Cassandra Searles has worked at many banks in her state. Katie McClure, who was Miss Earth Canada 2005 ...