- Miss USA 1953
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Miss USA 1953 Presenters Bob Russell Venue Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, USA Entrants 43 Placements 20 Winner Myrna Hansen
IllinoisCongeniality Jeanne Vaughn Thompson (Louisiana) The second edition of Miss USA was held in 1953, at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California, USA.
Myrna Hansen of Illinois, won the competition and was crowned by outgoing titleholder, the very first Miss USA, Jackie Loughery of New York.Contents
Results
Final Results Contestant Miss USA 1953 1st runner-up - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Mary Kemp Griffin
2nd runner-up - Alabama - Doris Edwards
3rd runner-up - Washington - Nancy Petraborg
4th runner-up - Utah - Shauna Wood
Top 20 - California - Marcella Roulette
- Colorado - Jeanie Carroll
- Florida - Kay Duggar
- Iowa - Marilyn Shonka
- Kentucky - Mary Ann Stice
- Louisiana - Jeanne Vaughn Thompson
- Maine - Jackie Lee
- Minnesota - Mary Ann Papke
- Nebraska - Berneta Nelson
- Nevada - Earlene Whitt
- New York - Reta Knapp
- Ohio - Eleanor Mack
- Pennsylvania - Jeri Bauer
- South Carolina - Susan Anthony Day
- Texas - Joan Gail Bradshaw
Special awards
Award Contestant Miss Congeniality - Louisiana - Jeanne Vaughn Thompson
Contestants
- Alabama - Doris Edwards
- Arizona - Eleanor Ruth Cross
- Arkansas - Jackie Stucker
- California - Marcella Roulette
- Colorado - Jeanie Carroll
- Connecticut - Beverlee Burlant
- Florida - Kay Duggar
- Idaho - Patricia Rose Carter
- Illinois - Myrna Hansen
- Indiana - Edith Mae Krumme
- Iowa - Marilyn Shonka
- Kentucky - Mary Ann Stice
- Louisiana - Jeanne Vaughn Thompson
- Maine - Jackie Lee
- Maryland - Diane Gale Durham
- Massachusetts - Joan Daly
- Michigan - Jo Ann Page
- Minnesota - Mary Ann Papke
- Mississippi - Jessie Wynn Morgan
- Missouri - Donna Gardner
- Montana - Billie Jean Tyrrell
- Nebraska - Berneta Nelson
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Mary Kemp Griffin
- Nevada - Earlene Whitt
- New Hampshire - Muriel Roy
- New Jersey - Susan Ruth Harris
- New York - Reta Knapp
- North Carolina - Libby Walker
- North Dakota - Marilyn Caufield
- Ohio - Eleanor Mack
- Oklahoma - Barbara Bond
- Pennsylvania - Jeri Bauer
- Rhode Island - Barbara Deignan
- South Carolina - Susan Anthony Day
- South Dakota - Kathleen Herman
- Texas - Joan Gail Bradshaw
- Utah - Shauna Wood
- Vermont - Kathleen Surrel
- Virginia - Dorothy Lee Bailey
- Washington - Nancy Petraborg
- West Virginia - Fay Higley
- Wisconsin - Jacque Marie Kimmel
- Wyoming - Nancy Rogers
Panel of Judges
- Jeff Chandler
- Rhonda Flemming
- Arlene Dahl
- Constance Moore
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