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-Ha�tien, 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. After two unsuccessful pageant tries, at Miss North Carolina and Miss Illinois, she won Miss Illinois, allowing her to advance to Miss America. At the Miss America pageant, she performed the Fantaisie-Impromptu by Chopin, won the crown, and became Miss America 1991 on 7 September 1990, succeeding Debbye Turner. It was the pageant's 70th anniversary, and former pageant emcee Bert Parks appeared as a guest. Host Gary Collins had Parks sing "There She Is" as Vincent walked the runway. It was Parks last appearance at the pageant; he died two years later in 1992. Thus, Marjorie Vincent was the last Miss America to be serenaded by Bert Parks. 

November 21st, 1964 in Oak Park (Age 60)