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The Miss Michigan competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Michigan in the Miss America pageant. Michigan has won the Miss America crown on five occasions. Jenae Lodewyk of Bay City was crowned Miss Michigan 2024 on June 15, 2024, at Frauenthal Theatre in Muskegon. She will represent the state of Michigan at ...
Previously Miss Michigan Teen USA 2009 and top 15 at Miss Teen USA 2009; 2011: Channing Pierce Royal Oak: 23 Miss Royal Oak 2010: Rima Fakih: Dearborn: 24 Miss Wayne County Miss USA 2010: Born in Lebanon; Non-semi-finalist at Miss Universe 2010; 2009: Lindsey Tycholiz [1] Sterling Heights: 26 Miss Great Lakes 2008: Elisabeth Crawford Canton: 25 ...
Later Mrs. Michigan America 2008 under her married name, Sara Dusendang-Moylan. [7] Mother of Miss Michigan Teen USA 2021, Jada Moylan 1998: Elizabeth Mathis: Detroit: 18 1997: Che'vonne Burton Detroit: 15 Later Miss Michigan 2000, and top 10 at Miss America 2001: 1996: Tamika Thomas Detroit: 18 Top 10 1995: Kathleen McConnell Trenton: 18 1994 ...
Events from the year 1960 in Michigan.. The top stories of the year in Michigan included: (1) the nomination and election of John Swainson, a 35-year-old double amputee, as Governor of Michigan; (2) the decision of G. Mennen Williams not to run for a seventh term as governor; (3) the selection of Michigan's Nancy Fleming as Miss America; (4) John F. Kennedy's taking Michigan's electoral votes ...
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
Stanley Ketchel (Stanilas Kiecal, aka "The Michigan Assassin"), middleweight champion (born in Grand Rapids) George "Kid" Lavigne , world lightweight champion of 1890s (born in Bay City ) Joe Louis , world heavyweight champion for 12 years, considered by some the best boxer of all time (born in LaFayette, Alabama ; moved to Detroit )
Hickox told Michigan Lottery. "I couldn't comprehend that I'd just won $500,000!" PHOTO: Emily Hickox of Indiana won $500,000 after playing a Michigan Lottery instant game ticket.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, US senator, founder of the United Nations (born in Grand Rapids) George W. Welsh, mayor of Grand Rapids 1938–49 and lieutenant governor (born in Scotland) Gretchen Whitmer, 49th governor of Michigan (born in Lansing) G. Mennen Williams, 41st governor of Michigan (born in Detroit)