Miss South Carolina
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- For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss South Carolina USA
Shelley Benthall, Miss South Carolina 2006
The Miss South Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The pageant was first held in Myrtle Beach and moved to Greenville starting in 1958 and remained in that city until the 90s. Spartanburg has hosted the pageant for the past several years. The pageant was televised since the 1960s until the 1998 pageant. Televising was resumed with the 2000 pageant. Joe Sanders is the executive officer of the pageant.
With victories in both 1957 and 1994, South Carolina has twice won the Miss America crown.
[edit] Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Local Title | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Shelley Benthall | Florence | Miss Florence | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 2005 | Erika Powell | Easley | Miss Golden Corner | Top 10 Finalist | Preliminary Talent; Bernie Wayne Performing Arts Scholarship | |
| 2004 | Ann Ashley Wood | Spartanburg | Miss Charleston | |||
| 2003 | Jessica Eddins | Irmo | Miss North Charleston | Non-finalist Talent | ||
| 2002 | Kelly McCorkle | Greenville | Miss Golden Corner | Top 15 Semi-finalist | Contestant on The Amazing Race 7 with partner Ron Young (3rd place) | |
| 2001 | Jeanna Raney | Inman | Miss Greater Greer | Top 20 Quarter-finalist | Active International Scholarship for Business and Marketing | |
| 2000 | Heather Hudson | Lexington | Miss Tigertown | Non-finalist talent | Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1996 | |
| 1999 | Danielle Davis | Greer | Miss Williamston | |||
| 1998 | Wendy Willis | Fountain Inn | Miss Camden | |||
| 1997 | Janet Powers | Hartsville | Miss Southern 500 | Non-finalist Talent | ||
| 1996 | Angela Hughes | Greer | Miss Anderson County | |||
| 1995 | Amanda Spivey | Spartanburg | Miss Southern 500 | Non-finalist Talent | ||
| 1994 | Kristie Greene | Greenville | Miss Berea | |||
| 1993 | Tonya Helms* | |||||
| Kimberly Clarice Aiken | Columbia | Miss Columbia | Winner | |||
| 1992 | Carrie Lee Davis | Greenville | Miss Greenville | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit | |
| 1991 | Ronnetta Hatcher | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||
| 1990 | Mary Gainey | Hartsville | Miss Liberty | 1st runner-up | ||
| 1989 | Kimilee Bryant | Greenville | Miss Greenville | Preliminary Talent | ||
| 1988 | Anna Reynolds | Greenwood | Miss Greenwood | |||
| 1987 | Nancy Humphries (later O'Dell) | Myrtle Beach | Miss Myrtle Beach | Preliminary Swimsuit | Co-host of Access Hollywood | |
| 1986 | Dawn Smith | Columbia | Miss Liberty | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | Competed in (and won) "Pageant Rewind" on What Not to Wear, against two other 1986 top-10 finalists. |
| 1985 | Sherry Thrift | Westminster | Miss Liberty | 1st runner-up | Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1980 | |
| 1984 | Vicki Harrell | Columbia | Miss University of South Carolina | |||
| 1983 | Dalia Garcia | Columbia | Miss South Congaree | |||
| 1982 | Julia Hill | Florence | Miss Duncan-Lyman-Wellford | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1981 | Jill Rankin | Columbia | Miss Columbia Northeast | |||
| 1980 | Donna Jewell | Columbia | Miss Cayce-West Columbia | |||
| 1979 | Jane Jenkins | Johns Island | Miss Charleston | |||
| 1978 | Mary Diane Toole | Aiken | Miss Aiken | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1977 | Catherine Hinson | Rock Hill | Miss Rock Hill | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | |
| 1976 | Lavinia Cox | Latta | Miss Rock Hill | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | |
| 1975 | Cynthia Anthony | West Columbia | Miss Lexington | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1974 | Cheryl Von Lehe | Charleston | Miss Charleston | |||
| 1973 | Fran Riggins | Easley | Miss Easley | |||
| 1972 | Bonnie Corder | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||
| 1971 | Pamela Inabinet | Swansea | Miss Columbia | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe, featured dancer on the 1972 Miss America Pageant telecast | ||
| 1970 | Claudia Turner | Spartanburg | Miss Spartanburg | 1st runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | |
| 1969 | Brantlee Price | Newberry | Miss Newberry | |||
| 1968 | Rebecca Smith | Clover | Miss Clover | |||
| 1967 | Peggy White | Fountain Inn | Miss Laurens | |||
| 1966 | Barbara Sorkin | Simpsonville | Miss Columbia | Preliminary Swimsuit | Former Mayor of Morris Township, New Jersey. | |
| 1965 | Nancy Moore (later Thurmond) | Aiken | Miss Aiken | Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent | Later married US Senator from South Carolina, Strom Thurmond |
| 1964 | Diana Sue Smith | Florence | Miss Florence | |||
| 1963 | Carolyn Gaines | North Augusta | Miss North Augusta | |||
| 1962 | Evelyn Ellis | Greenville | Miss Greenville | 3rd runner-up | Previously South Carolina's Junior Miss 1961 | |
| 1961 | Janet McGee | Greenville | Miss Greenville | |||
| 1960 | Edith Sandra Browning | Greenwood | Miss Greenwood | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit | |
| 1959 | Nettie Dennis | Moncks Corner | Miss Moncks Corner | |||
| 1958 | Gene Wilson | Charleston | Miss Charleston | Non-finalist Talent award | ||
| 1957 | Cecilia Colvert | Greenwood | Miss Greenwood | |||
| 1956 | Marian McKnight | Manning | Miss Manning | Winner | ||
| 1955 | Martha Chestnut | Conway | Miss Conway | |||
| 1954 | Polly Suber | Greenville | Miss Whitmire | 2nd runner-up | Preliminary Swimsuit | |
| 1953 | Miriam Stevenson | Winnsboro | Miss Greenwood | Later Miss South Carolina USA, Miss USA and Miss Universe 1954 | ||
| 1952 | Mary Griffin | Florence | Miss Florence | Semi-finalist | Placed 1st runner-up in the 1953 Miss USA Pageant representing Myrtle Beach, represented the United States at the 1953 Miss World Pageant where she placed sixth. | |
| 1951 | Joyce Perry | Conway | Miss Conway | Semi-finalist | ||
| 1950 | Carolyn Fowler | Lyman | Miss Lyman | |||
| 1949 | Barrie Wingard | Columbia | Miss Clinton | |||
| 1948 | Esther Greene | Greenville | Miss Greenville | |||
| 1947 | Margaret Griffin | Spartanburg | Miss Spartanburg | |||
| 1946 | Ann Morse | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||
| 1945 | Margaret Seible | Columbia | Miss Columbia | Non-finalist talent | ||
| 1944 | Virginia Owens | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||
| 1943 | Janelle Strange | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||
| 1942 | Nelle Owens | Columbia | Miss Columbia | |||
| 1941 | Gloria Missel | Charleston | Miss Charleston | |||
| 1940 | Vonadora Baker | Dillon | Miss Lakeview | |||
| 1939 | Margaret Shealy | Clinton | Miss Clinton | |||
| 1938 | Margaret Land | Chester | Miss Camden | |||
| 1937 | Wayring Smathers | Columbia | Miss Columbia |
* Succeeded to the crown after Miss South Carolina won Miss America
[edit] External links
| South Carolina Pageantry | |
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| Miss America Miss South Carolina |
Miss USA Miss South Carolina USA |
| Miss America's Outstanding Teen Miss South Carolina's Outstanding Teen |
Miss Teen USA Miss South Carolina Teen USA |
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