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Born: 26 September 1924 Died: 17 June 2017
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Venus Ramey (born September 26, 1924, in Ashland, Kentucky) left Kentucky to work for the war effort in Washington, DC, and won the Miss District of Columbia pageant and then became Miss America in 1944. She was the first red-haired contestant to win the title.
In the 1970s, Ramey successfully campaigned to save Over-the-Rhine, a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio. The neighborhood was eventually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and her work led her to make an unsuccessful bid for a spot on the Cincinnati City Council.
In April 2007, when she was 83, Ramey confronted intruders who had entered a storage bui
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1. The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003)
| Rating: | 910 Watched |
2. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
| Rating: | 453 Watched |
