Miss Minnesota USA
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The Miss Minnesota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Minnesota in the Miss USA pageant.
Despite a strong start in the first three years of competition at Miss USA, Minnesota has been largely unsuccessful overall. In more recent years Minnesota has twice received recognition with the Miss Photogenic award.
List of winners
- 2006 - Dottie Cannon
- 2005 - Carrie Lee
- 2004 - Jessica Dereschuk
- 2003 - Sarah Cahill (Miss Photogenic) -- former Miss Minnesota Teen USA 1996
- 2002 - Lanore Vanburen (3rd runner-up at Miss USA)
- 2001 - Anne Marie Clausen (Miss Photogenic)
- 2000 - Paige Swenson -- former Miss Minnesota Teen USA 1994
- 1999 - Crystal Vandenberg
- 1998 - Josan Hengen
- 1997 - Melissa Hall
- 1996 - Karin Smith
- 1995 - Angelique de Maison (Finalist at Miss USA)
- 1994 - Jolene Stravrakis
- 1993 - Kristi Bennecke
- 1992 - Amber Rue
- 1991 - April Herke
- 1990 - Janet Tveita (Semi-finalist at Miss USA and Miss Congeniality)
- 1989 - Julie Knutson
- 1988 - Julie Nelson -- television anchor for KARE channel 11 (NBC affiliate) in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area
- 1987 - Christine Rosenberger
- 1986 - Cynthia Peterson
- 1985 - Kari Lee Johnson (4th runner-up at Miss USA)
- 1984 - Martha Mork
- 1983 - Carolyn Mattson
- 1982 - Lori Kmetz
- 1981 - Polly Peterson
- 1980 - Carla Peterson (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1979 - Cynthia Sue Lee
- 1978 - Janey Golh
- 1977 - Debbie Cossette (2nd runner-up at Miss USA)
- 1976 - Barbara Petersen (Miss USA)
- 1975 - Dawn Lamotte
- 1974 - Gayle Johnson
- 1973 - Cyndi James
- 1972 - Darlene Koskiniemi
- 1971 - Shirley Kittleson
- 1970 - Sally Strickland
- 1969 - Laureen Darling
- 1968 - Arlene Larson
- 1967 - Betty Ann Brewer
- 1966 - Patricia Thatcher
- 1965 - Elizabeth Jane Carroll (Miss Congeniality)
- 1960-64 - No Representative
- 1959 - Muriel Fairbanks
- 1958 - Sue Bouchard
- 1957 - Mary Margaret Ford
- 1956 - Marilyn Johnson
- 1955 - Sally Ann Colombo
- 1954 - Dawn Joyce (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1953 - Mary Ann Papke (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1952 - Jodell Stirmlinger (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
Source
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