| Winner: | Lois Delander |
| Represented: | |
| Date: | September 9, 1927 |
| Presenters: | King Neptune (Eddie Dowling) |
| Entrants: | 75 |
| Placements: | 15 |
| Venue: | Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Before: | 1926 |
| Next: | 1933 |
Miss America 1927, the seventh Miss America pageant, was held at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Friday, September 9, 1927.[1] [2] The winner was 16-year-old Lois Delander who competed as Miss Illinois. She won the Miss America title on her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary.[3]
After newspaper articles alleged that young women were being falsely lured into the competition with claims of a screen test and the promise of a likely film career,[4] public pressure resulted in the 1927 competition being the last pageant to be held in the 1920s.[5] The next Miss America pageant would not be held until 1933, during the Great Depression.
| Placement | Contestant | |
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| Miss America 1927 |
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| 1st Runner-Up |
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| Top 5 | ||
| Top 15 |
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75 contestants competed for the title.
| Baltimore | Beulah Goldsborough | ||||
| Battle Creek | Charlotte Jane Lowe | ||||
| Biloxi | Phyllis Hunt | ||||
| Boston | Ethel Beatrice Pierce | ||||
| Bridgeport | Antoinette Violet | Bridgeport | |||
| Buffalo | Kay Armstrong | ||||
| Canton | Erma Shorwood Steele | ||||
| Charleston | Mary Claudia Harvin | Charleston | |||
| Chicago | Myrtle Valsted | Chicago | |||
| Dallas | Moselle Ransome | ||||
| Danville | Gladys Vile | ||||
| Denver | Elva Yvette Roy | ||||
| Elizabeth | Helen Mankus | ||||
| El Paso | Mildred Casad | ||||
| Flint | Ruth Bushroe | ||||
| Fort Worth | Juanita Gilbert | ||||
| Gary | Anna May Owens | Gary | |||
| Hammond | Anna Howe | ||||
| Hartford | Leona Faith Monoson | Hartford | |||
| Huntington | Lillian Ward | Huntington | |||
| Illinois | Lois Delander | Joliet | 16 | ||
| Jamestown | Laura Belle Cooper | ||||
| Jersey City | Eunice Geiser | ||||
| Kalamazoo | Florence Nina Clement | ||||
| Kansas City | Marion Kenser | ||||
| Lansing | Margherite Strang | ||||
| Lockport | Peggy Louise Proctor | ||||
| Lynn | Muriel E. Bowers | ||||
| Madison | Marjorie Leffingwell | ||||
| Miami | Marcia Hands | ||||
| Minneapolis | Sylvia Irene Brenner | Minneapolis | |||
| Missouri | Katherine Calloway | ||||
| Newark | Carolyn Pierson | ||||
| New England | Marion Howarth | Fall River | |||
| New Haven | Dorothy Barton | New Haven | |||
| New Orleans | Gladys Renya Moore | New Orleans | |||
| New York City | Freida Louise Mierse | Rolling Chair Parade Winner | |||
| Oakland | Ruby Smith | ||||
| Ohio | Evelyn Wilgus | Russells Point | |||
| Passiac | Harriet Rita Shelby | ||||
| Pennsylvania | Florence Koons | ||||
| Philadelphia | Kathleen Coyle | ||||
| Pittsburgh | Mary Millnack | ||||
| Pittsfield | Martha E. Hick | ||||
| Pontiac | Margaret Tinney | ||||
| Rhode Island | June Frances Costello | Providence | |||
| Rochester | Dorothea B. Ditmer | ||||
| Saginaw | Charlotte Elaine Bowman | ||||
| San Francisco | Naoma Farrand | ||||
| Santa Cruz | Bertha Weizel | ||||
| Seattle | Eleanor Maddieux | ||||
| South Bend | Hilda Koch | South Bend | |||
| South Dakota | Ramona Pearl Sorenson | Lemmon | 18 | ||
| Southern California | Louise Heathman | ||||
| Spokane | Eva King | ||||
| Springfield | Anna G. Bernard | Springfield | |||
| Storm Lake | Geneva Roberts | Storm Lake | 19 | ||
| Terre Haute | Vera Haspal | ||||
| Tulsa | Virginia Howard | Tulsa | |||
| Union City | Sue Hoch | ||||
| Utah | Esther Kilpatrick | Salt Lake City | |||
| Utica | Margaret Lockwood | ||||
| Washington D.C. | Gladys Cookman | ||||
| Watertown | Eva M. Bergman | ||||
| Western New York | Betty Schwartz | ||||
| Wheeling | Mildred Dorothy Bright | Wheeling | |||
| Wichita | Mildred Orr | ||||
| Wilkes-Barre | Esther J. Cantor | ||||
| Wisconsin | Virginia Hillyer | Fort Atkinson | 17 | ||
| Worcester | Dorothy M. Rawson | ||||
| Yonkers | Emma Sackett |