The Miss Connecticut competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Connecticut in the Miss America pageant. Connecticut has won the Miss America crown once (Marian Bergeron, 1933), and is the only New England state which has produced a Miss America.
The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Connecticut titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.
^Titleholder extended to a full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
References
^"Miss America 1933 Atlantic City Newspapers". Retrieved 2012-04-13.
^Lederman, Jay (June 19, 2023). "Miss Connecticut and Miss Connecticut Teen crowned at Mohegan Sun". News 12. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
^Smith, Ashley RK. "Miss Connecticut, Miss Connecticut Outstanding Teen 2022 winner announced". wfsb.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^DaRosa, Andrew (2021-04-12). "New Miss Connecticut, Miss Connecticut's Outstanding Teen crowned". Connecticut Post. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
^Smith, Steve. "Ellington student wins Miss Connecticut's Outstanding Teen title". courant.com. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
^Kuperinksy, Amy (May 8, 2020). "Miss America postpones pageant until 2021, N.J. pageant still set for September". Press of Atlantic City.
^Chaiken, Michael (June 9, 2019). "New Miss Connecticut, Outstanding Teen both credit their victories to being 'myself'". Republican American. Archived from the original on June 10, 2019. Retrieved June 22, 2019.
^Pellicano, Teresa (December 19, 2019). "Beauty and Brains: Miss Virginia is Miss America 2020, Miss CT leaves pageant fourth runner-up". WTNH News.
^"Bridget Oei crowned as Miss Connecticut". WTNH News. June 10, 2018.
^Melas, Chloe (September 10, 2018). "Miss America 2019 is Nia Franklin". CNN.
^Smith, Steve (July 5, 2017). "New Miss Connecticut Crowned". Hartford Courant.
^"Alyssa Taglia is Miss Connecticut 2016". pageantsnews.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^"Former Miss Wolcott is crowned Miss Connecticut". Republican-American. Waterbury, CT. July 1, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
^"Hamden woman named Miss Connecticut". New Haven Register. June 25, 2011.
^"Morgan Amarone, of Hamden, named Miss Connecticut". Post-Chronicle. June 28, 2011. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.
^"Miss Connecticut crowned; Ridgefield woman first runner-up". NewsTimes. June 29, 2008.
^"Jaycees Fed Up With Pageant". The Norwalk Hour. Aug 24, 1966.
^"www.imdb.com". imdb.com. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
^ a b"Miss America Timeline: 1901–1950". PBS. Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
^ a bSchnitzspahn, Karen (September 8, 1997). "There She Was – Miss Long Branch". Asbury Park Press. Asbury Park, New Jersey. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com. ...talent contest that was established in 1935.
^"Miss America 1933 Atlantic City Newspapers". Retrieved 2012-04-13.
^Arbuckle, Alex Q. (July 12, 2015). "1922:The first Miss America". Mashable.
^"Telling the News in Pictures: Prize Contest Beauty". Vancouver Daily World. Vancouver, British Columbia. December 2, 1922. p. 28 – via Newspapers.com. Lillian Peterson, "Miss New Haven," Conn., in Atlantic City beauty show..
^"Aspirant to Title of Queen of Beauty". The Ithaca Journal. Ithaca, New York. September 16, 1922. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.