- Jennifer Dupont
Pageant titleholder bio
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title=Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998Miss Louisiana USA 2000Miss Louisiana 2004
nationalcompetition=Miss Teen USA 1998Miss USA 2000Miss America 2005
location=Shreveport, Louisiana , U.S.
birthname= Jennifer Dupont
eye color= Brown
hair color=BlondeJennifer Dupont is a beauty pageant contestant who has achieved the honor of the "Triple Crown" - a title given to those who have achieved state titles in the
Miss Teen USA ,Miss USA andMiss America programmes. As of 2006, only six women have achieved this feat.Dupont's first title was
Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998. [cite news|publisher=The Advocate|title=Teen Briefs|date=1997-11-29] [cite news|title=Lafayette woman named Miss La. USA|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB4787E25818416&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|date=1997-11-10|publisher=The Advocate|accessdate=2007-02-22] The nationalMiss Teen USA pageant was held close to her home town inShreveport, Louisiana . [cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AD&p_theme=ad&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB478B14F36A1AD&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|publisher=The Advocate|accessdate=2007-02-22|title=Pageant short drive for Miss Teen Louisiana|date=1998-08-02] Eighteen months later, she won theMiss Louisiana USA 2000 title and at eighteen, was the youngest delegate to compete atMiss USA 2000, held inBranson, Missouri . She failed to place at either pageant.In 2004 Dupont, now 23, won the Miss America local preliminary title Miss Ouachita Parish and was later crowned
Miss Louisiana at the state pageant. At theMiss America 2005 pageant held atAtlantic City, New Jersey she won a preliminary swimsuit award and placed first runner-up toMiss Alabama ,Deidre Downs . [cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32502-2004Sep18.html|title=Alabamian Is Crowned Miss America|date=2004-09-14|accessdate=2007-02-22|first=David|last=Segal|publisher=Washington Post] Dupont bucked the trend among the previoustriple crown winners by achieving greater results at Miss America than in the Miss USA/Teen USA pageants.Whilst still in high school Dupont became a novice elementary school teacher and later graduated from
Louisiana State University with a degree in education. She was also a Golden Girl while atLouisiana State University . After graduation she opened her own dress shop in southLouisiana . Jennifer was recently married.References
External links
* [http://www.misslouisianausa.com Miss Louisiana USA & Teen USA official website]
* [http://www.misslouisiana.org Miss Louisiana official website]
* [http://www.missteenusa.com Miss Teen USA official website]
* [http://www.misslouisianausa.com Miss USA official website]
* [http://www.missamerica.org Miss America official website]
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