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! City / State / Title
! Name
! Age
! Notes |
| Akron
| Thelma Boyd[{{cite news |title=Be Chosen In Beauty Show|newspaper=The Lima News |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/lima-news-sep-07-1923-p-1/ |location=Lima, Ohio |date=September 7, 1923 |page=1 |via=Newspaperarchive.com}}]
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| File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg Alaska
| Helmar Liederman[{{cite news |first=Geoffrey |last=Dunn |title=Arctic Venus: The first Miss Alaska |url=https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/arctic-venus-the-first-miss-alaska/article_38361b60-ccf7-5ccb-ab9e-f1138a68680c.html |work=Anchorage Press|location=Anchorage, Alaska |date=August 24, 2011}}]
| 24
| Competed in Miss America 1922 pageant as Miss Alaska.[{{cite news |title=Miss Alaska Follows Trail of Ice, Water, Air, Rail to Beauty Camp |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/410397066/ |work=Daily News |location=New York, New York |date=September 3, 1922 |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
Disqualified from 1923 pageant because she was married. |
| File:Flag of Albany, New York.svg Albany
| Peggy Ross[{{cite news |title=Golden Apple Is Sought by Scores |newspaper=The Allentown Morning Call |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26319381/the-morning-call/|location=Allentown, Pennsylvania |date=September 6, 1923 |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Allentown
| Helen Noble[{{cite news |title=Half a Dozen America Beauties, Please |newspaper=The Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=33532&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjg4MjU4MjEsImlhdCI6MTU4NjY1MDIwMSwiZXhwIjoxNTg2NzM2NjAxfQ.YD71aKUA0b-9JGxDrgmMsgLjrdWD255BbaQo-Q7QaAc |location=Frederick, Maryland |date=September 6, 1923 |page=11 |via=Newspaper.com}}]
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| Altoona
| Margaret Lillian Ross
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| Asheville
| Rose Hildebrand
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| File:Flag of Atlanta.svg Atlanta, Georgia
| Frances Thayer
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| File:Flag of Baltimore, Maryland.svg Baltimore
| Billie Muller
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| Binghamton
| Bonita C. Bement
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| Birmingham
| Louise Newman
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| {{flagicon|Boston}} Boston
| Margaret L. Black
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| Bridgeton
| Sarah Delp
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| Brighton Beach
| Edithea Lois Wild[{{cite news |title=Lois Wilde, Famous Model at 15, Still Loves Dolls, but Aspires to Be a Bernhardt |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21596212/lois_wilde/ |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |location=Brooklyn, New York |date=December 10, 1922 |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
| 15
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| File:Flag of Brooklyn, New York.svg Brooklyn
| Ethelda Kenvin
| 24
| Married baseball player, E.D. Barnes, in 1921 |
| File:BuffaloOld.gif Buffalo
| Irene Knight
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| Burlington
| Hazel Gove
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| File:Flag of Cambridge, Massachusetts.svg Cambridge
| Doris Rowden George[{{cite news |title=Golden Apple Is Sought by Scores |newspaper=The Allentown Morning Call |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26319391/the-morning-call/ |location=Allentown, Pennsylvania |date=September 6, 1923 |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Camden
| Florence Nurock
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| Cape May
| Mildred McCann
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| {{flagicon|Chicago}} Chicago
| Corrine Dellefield
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| {{flagicon|Cincinnati}} Cincinnati
| Olga Emrick
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| Later worked as a stenographer and was active with the "Anti-Flirt Club"[{{cite web|first=Alexis |last=Coe |title=Stop That Skirt-Chaser! The Movement to Outlaw Flirting in the 1920s |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/02/stop-that-skirt-chaser-the-movement-to-outlaw-flirting-in-the-1920s/273068/ |work=The Atlantic |date=February 12, 2013 |quote=Olga Emrick, a Cincinnati stenographer, shows how a jiu-jitsu twist}}] |
| File:Flag of Cleveland, Ohio.svg Cleveland
| Mary Jane Clark
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| Columbus
| Genevieve Mambourg
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| Coney Island
| Heather Eulalie Walker
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| Star of the lost musical film, Hit the Deck, opposite Jack Oakie[{{cite web|title=Hit the Deck – 1929|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020977/ |work=IMDb}}] |
| Cumberland
| Elizabeth Catherine Steele[{{cite news |title=Elizabeth Catherine Steele Crowned "Miss Cumberland" |newspaper=Cumberland Evening Times |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/cumberland-evening-times-aug-30-1923-p-1/ |location=Cumberland, Maryland |date=August 30, 1923 |page=1|via=Newspaperarchive.com}}]
| 18
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| Detroit
| Beth Madson
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| Also competed in Miss America 1922 pageant as Miss Detroit[{{cite news |title=America's Prettiest Girls |newspaper=The Evening News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/59114451/ |location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |date=September 14, 1922 |page=22 |via=Newspapers.com}}] |
| Easton
| Agnes Connelly
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| File: Flag of Erie, Pennsylvania.svg Erie
| Dorothy Haupt
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| Also competed in Miss America 1922 pageant as Miss Easton[{{cite news |first=Alex Q. |last=Arbuckle |title=1922:The first Miss America |work=Mashable |url=https://mashable.com/2015/07/12/first-miss-america/ |date=July 12, 2015 |quote=Gorman, far right, poses in swimwear, with Mary Dague as "Miss Wheeling," Dorothy Haupt as "Miss Easton,"...}}] |
| Fort Worth
| Bessie Laurene Roosa[{{cite news |title=Wins Beauty Contest |work=National Petroleum News |publisher=National Petroleum Publishing Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WcRqVCtGIcAC&q=Bessie+Laurene+Roosa+fort+worth+1923&pg=RA13-PT166 |volume= 15 |issue=3 |date=September 5, 1923 |page=62 |via=Google Books}}]
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| Hammonton
| Alice Kind
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| Harrisburg
| Helen R. Knisely[{{cite news |title=More Beauties |newspaper=The Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=33532&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjg4MjU4MjEsImlhdCI6MTU4NjY1MDIwMSwiZXhwIjoxNTg2NzM2NjAxfQ.YD71aKUA0b-9JGxDrgmMsgLjrdWD255BbaQo-Q7QaAc |location=Frederick, Maryland |date=September 6, 1923 |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Jacksonville
| Alyce Phillips
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| Johnstown
| Betty Grening[{{cite news |title=Miss Johnstown Selected by Judges |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/149541604/ |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |date=September 1, 1923 |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Lakeland
| Mary Weaver[{{cite news |first=M.F. |last=Hetherington |title=History of Polk County Florida |publisher=The Record Company |url=https://digital.lib.usf.edu/SFS0036427/00001 |location=Lakeland, Florida |quote=Miss Mary Weaver represented Lakeland in the Beauty Pageant at Atlantic City in September, 1923.}}]
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| Lebanon
| Grace Kohr[{{cite news |title=Miss Grace Kohr Wins Right to Represent Lebanon in Shore Beauty Pageant Next Month |newspaper=Evening Report |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6568617/evening-report/ |location=Lebanon, Pennsylvania |date=August 21, 1923 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Long Branch
| Elene Hicks[{{cite news |first=Karen |last=Schnitzspahn |title=There She Was – Miss Long Branch|newspaper=Asbury Park Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17247651/asbury-park-press/ |location=Asbury Park, New Jersey |date=September 8, 1997|page=4 |quote=...talent contest that was established in 1935.|via=Newspapers.com}}]
| 19
| Died of breast cancer in 1940 at age 38 |
| Louisville
| Juanita Hobbs
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| Memphis
| Elizabeth Mallory[{{cite news |title=Trade Conditions |work=The Jewelers' Circular |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CEIcAQAAMAAJ&q=Elizabeth+Mallory+1923+memphis&pg=RA11-PA92 |volume=88 |date=April 23, 1924 |page=92 |quote=Miss Elizabeth Mallory, Miss Memphis for 1923, pitched the first ball. |via=Google Books}}]
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| Miami
| Katherine Kyle[{{cite news |title=Miss Newlon Is to Represent City|newspaper=Miami News-Metropolis |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/298499495/ |location=Miami, Florida |date=September 3, 1923|page=23 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Also known as "Katherine Newlon" |
| Miss America 1921
| Margaret Gorman[{{cite news |title=Margaret Gorman Cahill, 90; First Miss America |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-05-mn-53656-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=October 5, 1995}}]
| 18
| Competed as Miss America 1921 |
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| Miss America 1922
| Mary Katherine Campbell
| 16[{{cite book |last1=Watson |first1=Elwood |last2=Martin |first2=Darcy |title="There She Is, Miss America": The Politics of Sex, Beauty, and Race in America's Most Famous Pageant |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEEWDAAAQBAJ |edition=1 |location=New York, New York |publisher=Springer Publishing |date=2004 |isbn=1403981825 |via= Google Books}}]
| Competed as Miss America 1922
Only woman to win the national pageant twice |
| New Bedford
| Mildred Salisbury
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| New Haven
| Helen Haddock
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| rowspan="3" |{{Flagicon|New Jersey}} New Jersey
|Elizabeth McClure[{{Cite web|date=2018-06-28|title=Miss America 1923 Candidates|url=https://www.missamerica.org/titleholders/1923-candidates/|access-date=2020-06-15|website=Miss America|language=en-US}}]
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Alberta Dorothy Smith|
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Elsie Banholzer|
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| {{flagicon|New York City}} New York City
| Peggy Verna Shevlin
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| Niagara Falls
| Nelda Tell
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| Norristown
| Mildred Maconachy[{{cite news |title=Miss Norristown |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90914/mildred-maconachy-1923/ |location=New York, New York |date=September 2, 1923|page=74 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Ocean City
| Grace Taylor[{{cite news |title=Grace Taylor Is Miss Ocean City |newspaper=Cape May County Times |url=http://vdls.cmclibrary.org/?a=d&d=CMCTSIC19230817&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |location=New York, New York |date=August 17, 1923|page=1 }}]
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| Oklahoma City
| Mary Deen Overly[{{cite news |title=Beauty|newspaper=Dixon Evening Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/87559403/|location=Dixon, Illinois |date=September 8, 1923|page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Pensacola
| Katherine Floyd[{{cite news |title=illegible|newspaper=Albert Lea Freeborn County Standard|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/albert-lea-freeborn-county-standard-sep-27-1923-p-3/ |location=Albert Lea, Minnesota |date=September 27, 1923 |page=3 |quote=Katherine Floyd...was entered as “Miss Pensacola” in the National Beauty Show at Atlantic City, NJ.|via=NewspaperArchive.com}}][{{cite news |title=From the Sunny South |newspaper=The Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=33532&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjg4MjU4MjEsImlhdCI6MTU4NjY1MDIwMSwiZXhwIjoxNTg2NzM2NjAxfQ.YD71aKUA0b-9JGxDrgmMsgLjrdWD255BbaQo-Q7QaAc |location=Frederick, Maryland |date=September 6, 1923 |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| {{flagicon|Philadelphia}} Philadelphia
| Marion Green[{{cite news |title=Miss Philadelphia Leads the Parade |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/87559403/|location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |date=September 7, 1923|page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Portland
| Winona Evelyn Drew
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| Portland
| Patricia Smith
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| Pottsville
| Isabel Lynch
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| File:Flag of Providence, Rhode Island.png Providence
| Loretta La Flamme
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| Reading
| Jane Ondeck[{{cite news |title=ineligible |newspaper=Reading Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/47565406/|location=Reading, Pennsylvania |date=October 4, 1923 |page=8 |quote=Miss Jane Ondeck who represented Reading at the Atlantic City pageant...|via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Richmond
| Billie Gates[{{cite news |title=Beauties |newspaper=Olean Evening Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35539129/ |location=Olean, New York |date=September 5, 1923 |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Rochester
| Reta Cowles[{{cite news |title=Daily Graphic Review of News Events |newspaper=Athens Messenger |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/athens-messenger-sep-04-1923-p-7/ |location=Athens, Ohio |date=September 4, 1923 |page=7 |via=NewspaperArchive.com}}]
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| St. Louis
| Charlotte Nash
| 17
| Married millionaire and theatre magnate, Fred Nixon-Nirdlinger, twice[{{cite news|title=Beauty Contest Girl Held as Husband Shot to Death |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3305620/reality-is-so-much-more-interesting/ |newspaper=The San Bernardino Daily Sun |location=San Bernardino, California |date=March 13, 1931 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}][{{cite news|title=Charlotte Nash |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26502940/the-st-louis-star-and-times/ |newspaper=The St. Louis Star |location=St. Louis, Missouri |date=May 19, 1926 |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
Shot and killed Nixon-Nirdlinger in March 1931 in Nice, France[{{cite news |title=Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger Goes on Trial Today |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/05/20/archives/mrs-nixonnirdlinger-goes-on-trial-today-acquittal-expected-in-nice.html|location=New York, New York |date=May 20, 1931 |page=13}}]
Was acquitted after successfully arguing act was in self-defense[{{cite news |title=First Intimate Details of Her Romance With the Theatrical Magnate |newspaper=The St. Louis Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/25106543/the-st-louis-star-and-times/ |location=St. Louis, Missouri |date=July 7, 1931 |page=3 |quote=...acquitted in Nice, France of the murder of her husband.|via=Newspapers.com}}][{{cite news|title=Takes Jury Ten Minutes to Acquit US Beauty |newspaper=The Central New Jersey Home News |location= New Brunswick, New Jersey |date= May 20, 1913}}] |
| San Antonio
| Katherine Helmsley
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| File:Flag of San Francisco, California (1900–1940).svg San Francisco
| Violet Regal[{{cite news |title=Extra Attraction |newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26109625/the-san-francisco-examiner/ |location=San Francisco, California |date=August 22, 1923 |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Sunbury
| Mary Botto
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| Syracuse
| Eileen Snyder[{{cite news |first=Johnathan |last=Croyle |title= Miss Syracuse charms at the 1923 Miss America Pageant |url=https://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2018/09/miss_syracuse_charms_at_the_1923_miss_america_pageant.html |website=Syracuse.com |date=September 8, 2018}}]
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| Trenton
| Alma D. DeCone
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| 25px Tulsa
| Constance Crosby[{{Cite news |date=10 September 1923 |title=Miss Tulsa in Chair |language=en |pages=1 |work=The Tulsa Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tulsa-tribune-tulsa-constance-crosby/113546846/ |access-date=6 May 2023}}]
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| Vineland
| Mary E. Edwards
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| Washington, D.C.
| Lorraine Bunch
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| File:Flag of West Virginia (1907-1929).png West Virginia
| Neva Jackson[{{cite news |title=West Virginia's Best |newspaper=The Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=33532&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjg4MjU4MjEsImlhdCI6MTU4NjY1MDIwMSwiZXhwIjoxNTg2NzM2NjAxfQ.YD71aKUA0b-9JGxDrgmMsgLjrdWD255BbaQo-Q7QaAc |location=Frederick, Maryland |date=September 6, 1923 |page=11 |via=Newspapers.com}}]
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| Wildwoody
| Eleanor Addis
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| Wilmington
| Ruth Agnes Brady
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