The first Miss America was a 16-year-old high schooler

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Sept. 7, 1922

Margaret Gorman, the newly crowned Miss America, awaits the arrival of Neptune in her royal robes at the opening of the Atlantic City Beauty Pageant.

Image: Bettmann/Corbis

In 1921, one 16-year-old Margaret Gorman, a high school junior in Washington, D.C., submitted a snap of...

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