Frances Marie Burke

Frances Marie Burke

Frances Marie Burke was Miss America in 1940.

Burke, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the first Miss America to be crowned at the Boardwalk Hall. [cite web | url= http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1940/review.asp | title= Miss America History 1940's - Decade in Review | accessdate = 2006-12-30]

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