The following historical information was supplied by Ric Ferentz of the Miss America Organization and we thank him for this!
There were Miss New Hampshire titleholders prior to 1947, when the Union Leader newspaper took over the Miss New Hampshire Charter. Here is a partial list:
1945
Lee Corey
Lake Spofford
1944
Jackie Edson
Plaistow
1939
Lois Marjorie Truax
Nashua
1936
Edna Dean Jones
Roxbury (placed as a semi-finalist in Atlantic City.)
1925
Helen Kanehl
Miss Manchester (this was during the "Inter-City" days)
* Link is placed here with the permission of NH Magazine,
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