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Miss USA is an American beauty pageant that has been held annually since 1952 to select the entrant from United States in the Miss Universe pageant. Titleholders Nine Miss USA winners have gone on to become Miss Universe and are indicated in bold face.
Miss Arkansas USA, previously known as Miss Arkansas Universe, [1] [2] is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by that winner. The pageant is directed by Vanbros and Associates. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Orean Lencola Sullivan (born 1957) is an American news anchor, singer and former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss America pageant. She was the first African-American to be crowned Miss Arkansas. [1] Sullivan was the oldest of five children born to Richard and Macie Sullivan.
Britt won her first major pageant title, Miss Arkansas USA, in early 1982. She went on to win the title Miss USA [5] in the nationally televised pageant held in Biloxi, Mississippi in May 1982. She was twenty years old at the time. Britt went on to represent the United States in the Miss Universe pageant in Lima, Peru in July of the same year. [6]
The Miss Arkansas competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arkansas in the Miss America pageant. Arkansas has won the Miss America title three times (1964, 1982, 2017). Camille Cathey of Wynne was crowned Miss Arkansas 2024 on June 15, 2024, at Robinson Center Auditorium in Little Rock. She will compete for ...
Smith competed in her first major beauty contest in 1994, when she was a semifinalist in the Miss Texas USA pageant, as Miss South East Texas USA. [8] The following year, she competed again as Miss Galveston County USA, and won the title, as well as the Miss Congeniality award. [9]
It was already an established national pageant before Miss Universe, Inc. began its own version of it in 1983. [2] [3] The first Miss Teen USA competition first took place as a mail-in photo contest conducted by Teen magazine in 1959. [2] [4] It later took place as a live stage event. [5]
The first University of Arkansas football team was formed in 1894 and coached by John Futrall, who was a Latin professor at the university. [3] That team played three games: two against Fort Smith High School and one against Texas. [3] Before the 1909 season, the teams were called the Arkansas Cardinals and a bird was the school's mascot. [4]