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Miss America 2011 crown won by Miss Nebraska Teresa

Miss America 2011 crown won by Miss Nebraska, Teresa Scanlan. She is a 17-year-old young lady from Nebraska became the youngest winner of the Miss America 2011 in 90 years on Saturday. She won the crown after beating 52 other young women from across the United States.

She was the youngest Miss America since the pageant’s first competition in 1921, when Margaret Gorman of the District of Columbia won at age 15.

Teresa Scanlan won a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong run with the crown. On Saturday night at the competition at the Planet Hollywood casino resort in Las Vegas, giving the Cornhusker State its first-ever win at the pageant.

Teresa Scanlan, a recent high school graduate from the western Nebraska town of Gering, planned to study American politics at Patrick Henry College in Virginia. She is also willing to attend law school, become a judge and eventually a politician, according to her pageant biography.

Scanlan won after strutting in a black bikini and a white evening gown, playing “White Water Chopped Sticks” on piano and telling the audience that when it comes to Wikileaks, security should come before public access to government More Pictures