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| x Skeet Reese |
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2009 Bassmaster Classic |
Skeet Reese is a professional sport fisherman of the B.A.S.S. (Bass Anglers Sportsmans Society). He was born in Auburn, California on June 30, 1969. He has a wife, Kim, and a child, Leamarie.
On September 15, 2007, Skeet became the 2007 B.A.S.S....
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| x Alton Jones |
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2008 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Boyd Duckett |
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2007 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Luke Clausen |
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2006 Bassmaster Classic |
Luke Clausen of the Spokane Valley is the winner of the 36th Citgo Bassmaster Classic held on Lake Tohopekaliga in central Florida Feb. 23-26, 2006.
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| x Kevin VanDam |
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2005 Bassmaster Classic |
Kevin VanDam (born October 14, 1967) has been hailed one of the top bass anglers in the world. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan (where he still resides), has a wife - Sherry, and two sons - Jackson and Nicholas. He is known for his ability to...
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| x Takahiro Omori |
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2004 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Michael Iaconelli |
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2003 Bassmaster Classic |
Michael Iaconelli is a professional bass fishermen from Runnemede, New Jersey United States. Iaconelli is best known for his trademark scream when he lands a big fish.
Born June 17, 1972. Michael Iaconelli graduated summa cum laude with a bachelors'...
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| x Jay Yelas |
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2002 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Woo Daves |
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2000 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Davy Hite |
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1999 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Denny Brauer |
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1998 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Bobby Murray |
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1971 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Don Butler |
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1972 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Rayo Breckenridge |
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1973 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Tommy Martin |
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1974 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Jack Hains |
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1975 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Rick Clunn |
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1976 Bassmaster Classic |
Rick Clunn (born August 24, 1946) is a paid professional fisherman from Ava, Missouri. He has dominated the Bassmasters Classic by qualifying for more than any other angler and for winning twice as many Bassmaster Classics than his closest...
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| 1977 Bassmaster Classic | ||||
| 1990 Bassmaster Classic | ||||
| x Mark Davis |
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1995 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Dion Hibdon |
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1997 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x George Cochran |
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1996 Bassmaster Classic | ||
| x Geir Skeie |
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2009 Bocuse d'Or |
Geir Skeie (born July 2, 1980, Fitjar) is a Norwegian chef, winner of the 2008 Bocuse d'Or Europe, and the 2009 Bocuse d'Or world final.
Skeie is a chef de cuisine at Mathuset Midtåsen Solvold in Sandefjord, owned by 1997 Bocuse d'Or bronze...
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| x Fabrice Desvignes |
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2007 Bocuse d'Or |
Fabrice Desvignes is a French chef, and winner of the 2007 Bocuse d'Or. Desvignes is currently a second chef at the Présidence du Sénat in Paris.
Desvignes’s prize-winning dish was a volaille de Bresse truffée (truffled Bresse chicken). During the...
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| x Serge Vieira |
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2005 Bocuse d'Or | ||
| x Charles Tjessem |
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2003 Bocuse d'Or |
Charles Tjessem (born 1972, Sandnes) is a Norwegian chef, and winner of the 2003 Bocuse d'Or. The victory was achieved over the French chef Frank Putelat by the smallest margin of points to date in the competition.
Tjessem is currently a chef and...
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| x Margaret Gorman |
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1921 Miss America |
Margaret Gorman (August 18, 1905–October 1, 1995, age 90) is best known for being the very first Miss America, from the year 1921. Her measurements were 30–25–32.
Gorman was chosen from a photo popularity contest and finalist round as the first ...
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| x Barbara Jo Walker |
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1947 Miss America |
Barbara Jo Walker Hummel (March 12, 1926–June 7, 2000) was Miss America in 1947.
She was the last Miss America to be crowned in her bathing suit; all since 1947 have been crowned in their evening gowns. Walker, was Miss Memphis, the last city...
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| x Mary Katherine Campbell |
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1922 Miss America |
Mary Katherine Campbell (December 18, 1905–June 7, 1990) was the only person to win the Miss America Pageant twice. Campbell was Miss America 1922 and Miss America 1923, and she was also First Runner Up at the 1924 Miss America Pageant. Competing as...
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| x Ruth Malcomson |
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1924 Miss America |
Ruth Malcomson (1906–1988) was Miss America in 1924.
Malcomson, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, defeated Mary Campbell, who was seeking her third consecutive crown.
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| x Fay Lanphier |
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1925 Miss America |
Fay Elinora Lanphier (12 December 1905 – June 21, 1959) was a model most noted for becoming Miss California in 1924 and Miss America in 1925. She was also the 1925 Rose Queen. To date, she is the only person to hold both titles at the same time....
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| x Norma Smallwood |
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1926 Miss America |
Norma Descygne Smallwood (May 12, 1909 – May 8, 1966) was 1926's Miss America.
Smallwood, whose full name was Norma Des Cygne Smallwood, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, former Miss Tulsa and student at Oklahoma State University, was the first Native...
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| x Lois Delander |
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1927 Miss America |
Lois Eleanor Delander (February 14, 1911 – 1985) was Miss America in 1927.
Delander, a native of Joliet, Illinois and high school junior, aged 16, won the crown on her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary. The pageant was not held again until 1932...
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| x Marian Bergeron |
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1933 Miss America |
Marian Bergeron (May 3, 1918 – October 22, 2002) was Miss America in 1933.
Bergeron, from West Haven, Connecticut, won the crown as the pageant returned to Atlantic City, New Jersey after a five year hiatus. She was the youngest Miss America in...
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| x Henrietta Leaver |
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1935 Miss America |
Henrietta Leaver (March 28, 1916 – September 1993) was Miss America in 1935.
Leaver, from McKeesport, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, was the first Miss America crowned since 1933, following a failed pageant held in Madison Square Garden which crowned...
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| x Rose Coyle |
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1936 Miss America |
Rose Veronica Coyle (July 30, 1914–February 1988) was Miss America in 1936.
Coyle, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was the first to receive an encore in the talent completion. In 1938, she married Leonard Schlessinger, the National General Manager...
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| x Bette Cooper |
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1937 Miss America |
Bette Cooper (born 1920) was 1937's Miss America. She was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey.
Cooper, who had earlier won the Miss Bertrand Island title, reportedly does not speak of her involvement with Miss America.
Cooper attended Centenary Junior...
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| x Marilyn Meseke |
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1938 Miss America |
Marilyn Meseke (also known as Marilyn Hume-Rogers) (October 7, 1916 – September 12, 2001) has the distinction of being twice crowned Miss Ohio (1931 and 1938) and Miss America in 1938.
Meseke was christened Mary Ellen Spurrier in 1917, near Lima,...
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| x Patricia Donnelly |
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1939 Miss America |
Patricia Donnelly was Miss America in 1939.
Donnelly, from Detroit, Michigan, was the last to be crowned at the Steel Pier.
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| x Frances Marie Burke |
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1940 Miss America |
Frances Marie Burke was Miss America in 1940.
Burke, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the first Miss America to be crowned at the Boardwalk Hall.
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| x Rosemary LaPlanche |
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1941 Miss America |
Rosemary LaPlanche (October 11, 1923–May 6, 1979) was Miss America in 1941.
LaPlanche, from Los Angeles, California, was Miss California in both 1940 and 1941. A new rule after her victory disallowed contestants from competing at the national level...
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| x Jo-Carroll Dennison |
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1942 Miss America |
Jo-Carroll Dennison (born December 16, 1923) was a beauty queen and actress originally from Tyler, Texas.
Dennison, a self-supported student at the Federal Institute in Tyler, Texas was lured into competing in the Miss Tyler pageant by the offer of...
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| x Jean Bartel |
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1943 Miss America |
Jean Bartel was Miss California and Miss America 1943. She won a talent and swimsuit award at the Miss America pageant. Bartel initially entered the pageant after learning one of the judges was Broadway actor and producer W. Horace Schmidlapp. As...
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| x Venus Ramey |
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1944 Miss America |
Venus Ramey (b. September 26, 1924, Ashland, Kentucky) was Miss America in 1944, and was the first red-haired contestant to win the title.
Ramey competed as Miss District of Columbia and worked during her reign to help win suffrage for Washington D...
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| x Bess Myerson |
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1945 Miss America |
Bess Myerson (born July 16, 1924 in Bronx, New York) became in 1945 the first Jewish woman to win the Miss America pageant. She appeared on various television shows in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1970s and '80s, she was involved in New York City...
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| x Marilyn Buferd |
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1946 Miss America |
Marilyn Buferd (January 30, 1925 – March 27, 1990) was Miss America in 1946. She appeared in several minor films in the 1950s as well as several foreign language films, including the notable Touchez pas au grisbi opposite Jean Gabin (1954).
Buferd,...
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| x BeBe Shopp |
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1948 Miss America |
BeBe Shopp, from Hopkins, Minnesota, was Miss America in 1948.
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| x Jacque Mercer |
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1949 Miss America |
Jacque Mercer (1931–2 February, 1982) from Litchfield, Arizona was Miss America in 1949. She is mentioned (usually by title, once by name) several times in the 1997 Philip Roth novel, American Pastoral.
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| x Yolande Betbeze |
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1950 Miss America |
Yolande Betbeze Fox (born 1929 in Mobile, Alabama) was Miss America in 1951.
Fox (then Betbeze) entered Miss Alabama for the scholarship opportunities the pageant presented. Having been educated in a convent school, she was reluctant to pose in a...
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| x Colleen Kay Hutchins |
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1952 Miss America |
Colleen Kay Hutchins (born 23 May 1926), from Salt Lake City, Utah, was crowned as Brigham Young University Homecoming Queen in 1947 with Jean Romney and Myrlene Romney as her attendants. In 1952 she was crowned as Miss America. She is also the...
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| x Neva Jane Langley |
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1953 Miss America |
Neva Jane Langley (born January 25, 1933 in Lakeland, Florida) is an American former beauty pageant contestant. As a college sophomore she transferred to Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. While attending that college she became Miss Macon, Miss...
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| x Evelyn Margaret Ay |
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1954 Miss America |
Evelyn Margaret Ay Sempier (8 March 1933 – 18 October 2008) was winner of the 1954 Miss America beauty pageant.
She was born the daughter of German immigrants in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
She had a short but successful career in smaller beauty pageant....
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| x Lee Meriwether |
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1955 Miss America |
Lee Ann Meriwether (born May 27, 1935) is Miss America 1955, and an American actress, appearing primarily in movies, soap operas and television. The brunette Meriwether is known as Buddy Ebsen's daughter-in-law and for her role as his crime-solving...
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| x Sharon Ritchie |
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1956 Miss America |
Sharon Kay Ritchie (born January 12, 1937) was Miss America in 1956.
Ritchie spent her childhood in Grand Island, Nebraska, but hailed from Denver as Miss Colorado. Formerly married to singer/golfer Don Cherry, sportswriter Kyle Rote, and E.F....
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| x Marian McKnight |
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1957 Miss America |
Marian McKnight (born 19 December 1936 in Manning, South Carolina) is a former American beauty pageant winner.
She earned the 1957 Miss America title with a Marilyn Monroe act in the talent portion, and later worked with Monroe's ex-husband, Joe...
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| x Marilyn Van Derbur |
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1958 Miss America |
Marilyn Van Derbur (born June 6, 1937) was Miss America in 1958.
Van Derbur from Denver, Colorado, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Colorado. As a result of a long history of sexual abuse by her father, she founded the American...
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| x Mary Ann Mobley |
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1959 Miss America |
Mary Ann Mobley (born February 17, 1939 in Biloxi, Mississippi). She is a former Miss America, actress, and television personality.
She married actor Gary Collins in 1967. Their daughter, Mary Clancy Collins, is a Senior Vice President with MGM...
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| x Lynda Lee Mead |
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1960 Miss America |
Lynda Lee Mead Shea (born c. 1939), from Natchez, Mississippi, attended the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, and won the Miss America pageant in 1960. She is married to John J. Shea, Jr. and they have three...
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| x Nancy Fleming |
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1961 Miss America |
Nancy Anne Fleming (born ca. 1942) won the Miss America crown in 1961.
A native of Montague, Michigan, Fleming competed in the Miss America pageant as Miss Michigan. She competed in Miss Michigan as Miss White Lake.
She later worked in the...
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| x Maria Fletcher |
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1962 Miss America |
Maria Beale Fletcher was Miss America 1962.
Fletcher is from Asheville, North Carolina, and was a graduate of A.C. Reynolds High School. She worked as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette prior to winning the crown. She was the Miss America Preliminary...
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| x Jacquelyn Mayer |
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1963 Miss America |
Jacquelyn Jeanne "Jackie" Mayer (born August 20, 1942 in Sandusky, Ohio) is a former Miss Ohio and Miss America and currently travels the United States as a motivational speaker, noted for her recovery from a near-fatal stroke suffered at age 28....
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| x Donna Axum |
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1964 Miss America |
Donna Axum was Miss America in 1964.
Axum from El Dorado, Arkansas, now lives in Fort Worth and is a member of the boards of the National Committee for the Performing Arts for the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Fort Worth Symphony, the Van...
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