Ashley Litton
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| name=Ashley Litton
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| title=Miss Missouri USA 2004
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| birth_place= Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
| birth_name= Ashley Renee Litton
| birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1983|07|29}}
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Ashley Renee Litton is an American model and beauty pageant titleholder who held the Miss Missouri USA 2004.[https://web.archive.org/web/20041011170351/http://missmissouriusa.com/ashley_bio.html Miss Missouri USA official titleholder profile]. Retrieved 2006-09-27
Miss Kansas Teen USA
Litton grew up in Olathe, Kansas and started competing in pageants in that state.{{cite news|url=http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=7677 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20040602205540/http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=7677 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-06-02 |title=Miss Missouri USA designs a future at Stephens College |first=Jamie |last=Nadolny |date=2004-06-01 |accessdate=2006-11-04 }} She went unplaced in the Miss Kansas Teen USA 2001 pageant and was a semi-finalist in 2002.
Miss Missouri USA
After graduating from Olathe South High School in 2001, Litton studied Fashion Design and Product Development at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri.{{cite news|title=Litton crowned Miss Missouri USA |publisher=The Ideal Connection (Stephens College)| url=http://www.stephens.edu/alumnae/magazine/web/04summer/inbrief.php|date=Summer 2004|accessdate=2006-11-04}}
Litton competed in the 2003 Miss Missouri USA pageant and was a semi-finalist. She was also a semi-finalist in 2004, when Shandi Finnessey of Florissant was crowned.
On April 12, 2004, Finnessey won the title of Miss USA 2004. The organizers of Miss Missouri USA decided to crown another queen to replace Finnessey and reign for the rest of the year. Litton was selected as the new Miss Missouri USA 2004. She reigned from April until December 2004, when the 2005 Miss Missouri USA pageant took place.
Because she never had the opportunity to compete in the Miss USA pageant, Litton was eligible to compete for the Miss Missouri USA title after she passed on the crown in 2005. She competed for the title in 2006, and placed first runner-up to Kristi Capel of Springfield. She also made the semi-finals in the 2007 competition won by Amber Seyer of Oran.
Life after Miss Missouri USA
Litton operates a pageant boutique named Crown Chic in Shawnee, Kansas with fellow titleholder Lisa Forbes, Miss Kansas USA 2004.{{cite news|title=Gown store caters to pageant competitors |publisher=The Shawnee Dispatch |url=http://www.shawneedispatch.com/section/business/story/4966 |first=Caroline |last=Boyer |date=2006-09-13 |accessdate=2006-11-04 }}{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
References
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External links
- [http://www.missmissouriusa.com/ Miss Missouri USA official website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060918200625/http://www.missusa.com/ Miss USA official website]
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| before=Shandi Finnessey
| title=Miss Missouri USA
| years=2004
| after=Andrea Ciliberti
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Category:People from Olathe, Kansas
Category:Stephens College alumni
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:People from Shawnee, Kansas
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