Miss America 1974

Miss America 1974, the 47th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 8, 1973, and broadcast on NBC.

The winner was Rebecca Ann King, whose daughter Diana Dreman would become Miss Colorado and a contender for Miss America 2012, the first daughter of a victorious Miss America to compete in the pageant.

Suzanne Plummer, second runner-up, is known today as Sue Lowden, who became chairperson of the Republican Party in Nevada and a 2010 U.S. Senate candidate there. Another contestant, Michelle Marshall of Missouri, is now the political analyst and blogger Taylor Marsh.

Judges

 * Peter Lind Hayes
 * Peggy Fleming
 * Dr. Wellington B. Gray
 * Lee Meriwether
 * Vivienne della Chiesa
 * Eileen Farrell
 * Mary Healy
 * Don Galloway
 * Trudy Haynes
 * Art Fleming