1. Norma Des Cygne Smallwood was the winner of the Miss America 1926 pageant.
11 Facts About Norma Smallwood
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Norma Smallwood was the daughter of Edward Smallwood and Mahalia Angela Smallwood.
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Norma Smallwood had a paternal half sister and half brother.
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Norma Smallwood earned the Miss Tulsa title and graduated from high school at age 16.
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At the time she competed for Miss America, Smallwood was a student at the Oklahoma College for Women.
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Norma Smallwood's hobbies included swimming, dancing, and horseback riding, and she served as captain of her college hockey team.
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Norma Smallwood captured first place in both the bather's review and the evening gown contest.
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Norma Smallwood is noted as being the first self-identified Native American to win the crown.
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Norma Smallwood wore her long chestnut hair in two braided buns, unlike the bobbed flapper style that was popular at the time.
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In 1936, Smallwood married George H Bruce, president of Aladdin Petroleum Corporation.
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Norma Smallwood died on May 8,1966, in Wichita, Kansas, aged 56.