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.
Assumed the title after charging that the winner, Karen Maguire, was not qualified. Behind closed doors with pageant officials present there was some sort of secret run-off with the original winner. At that meeting, Gelish was declared the winner[25]
Held the national title from September 1933 to September 1935 due to pageant being financially unsuccessful after 1933 and not returning until 1935[29]
No Connecticut representative at Miss America pageant[34]
Notes
↑ Titleholder extended to a full year in 2020 after state and national pageants postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
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