Marjorie Vincent

  • Birthday: 20. November 1964

Biography

Marjorie Judith Vincent is a former journalist and beauty contestant who was crowned Miss America 1991.

Vincent's parents, Lucien and Florence Vincent of Cap-Haïtien, Haiti migrated to the United States in the early 1960s; Marjorie was the first of their children to be born in America. She grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, going to Catholic school and taking ballet and piano lessons. Vincent entered DePaul University as a music major, switching to business in junior year and graduating in 1988. Money from beauty pageants helped to pay for school.[1]

After two unsuccessful pageant tries, at Miss North Carolina and Miss Illinois,[2] she won Miss Illinois, allowing her to advance to Miss America. At the Miss America pageant, she performed the Fantaisie-Impromptu (Op. posth. 66) by Chopin, won the crown, and became Miss America 1991 on 7 September 1990, succeeding Debbye Turner.[1]

Vincent, who already had two years in law school at Duke University before becoming Miss America, changed her goal from international law to television journalism, becoming a news anchor at WGBC in Meridian, Mississippi in October 1993.[2][3] She later worked at WHOI in Peoria, Illinois, and the Ohio News Network in Columbus, Ohio, for the next six-plus years.[citation needed]

As of 2008, Vincent was completing her law degree at Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville, Florida.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Debbye Turner
Miss America
1991
Succeeded by
Carolyn Sapp
Preceded by
Jeri Zimmerman
Miss Illinois
1990
Succeeded by
Jaclyn Greer

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