{{Short description|Miss America winner}} {{Infobox person | name = Lois E. Delander<!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name --> | image =Lois Delander Miss America 1927.jpg <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = Delander in 1927 | birth_name = Lois Eleanor Delander | birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|03|14}} | birth_place = Joliet, Illinois | death_date = {{Death date and age|1985|01|23|1911|03|14|mf=yes}} | death_place = Chicago, Illinois | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = | predecessor = Norma Smallwood | successor =Marian Bergeron | title = Miss America 1927 | spouse = Ralph Lang | children = 3 | known_for = }}
'''Lois Eleanor Delander''' (February 14, 1911 – January 23, 1985) was Miss America in 1927.
==Biography== Delander, a native of Joliet, Illinois and high school junior, aged 16, won the Miss America crown on her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary. Following the 1927 competition, the pageant would not held again until 1933.
She was one of the most famous models appearing in the Gerlach Barklow Co. art calendars.<ref>{{Cite news|last = Sorensen|first = Karen|title = Old Calendars Now Now Coveted by Collectors, Plainfield Historians Say|work = Plainfield Patch|location = Plainfield, IL|accessdate = 2013-06-07|date = 2012-02-22|url = http://plainfield.patch.com/groups/arts-and-entertainment/p/calendar-b4568dd4}}</ref> A pastel of Lois Delander wearing a white bathing suit was artist Adelaide Hiebel's most famous work.<ref name="cityofjoliet">{{Cite web|title=Adelaide Hiebel|url=http://www.cityofjoliet.com/halloffame/artists/adelaidehiebel.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040825004614/http://www.cityofjoliet.com/halloffame/artists/adelaidehiebel.htm|archive-date=2004-08-25|work=City of Joliet|accessdate=2013-06-07}}</ref>
==Personal life== She married Ralph Lang, a stockbroker, and lived in Evanston, Illinois with her three daughters, Diana, Linda, and Marsha.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cEkEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Lois+Delander%22&pg=PA89 |title=All the Miss Americas, Then and Now |work=LIFE Magazine |date= September 28, 1959 |publisher= Time Inc. |page= 89}}</ref> She died near Chicago in 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1920/1927.asp |title=Miss America History 1927 |accessdate=2006-12-23 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923040046/http://www.missamerica.org/our-miss-americas/1920/1927.asp |archivedate=2006-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== References == <references /> *Russell Roberts, Richard Youmans, ''Down the Jersey Shore'', Rutgers University Press, 1993 {{ISBN|0-8135-1996-9}}, p. 89
== External links == {{commons category|Lois Delander}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20040825004614/http://www.cityofjoliet.com/halloffame/artists/adelaidehiebel.htm A pastel of Lois Delander wearing a white bathing suit], by Adelaide Hiebel * {{Youtube|C1rbv8eiDOw|"America's Fairest Maid" (1927), British Pathé}}
{{s-start}} {{s-ach}} {{succession box | before=Norma Smallwood | title=Miss America | years=1927 | after=Marian Bergeron }} {{s-end}}
{{MissAmericas 1921–1939}} {{Illinois pageant winners}} {{Miss America}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Delander, Lois}} Category:1911 births Category:1985 deaths Category:Miss America 1920s delegates Category:Miss America winners Category:People from Joliet, Illinois Category:20th-century American beauty pageant contestants {{US-pageant-bio-stub}}