Irma_Nydia_Vázquez

Irma Nydia Vázquez (June 8, 1929 – May 2, 2019) was Puerto Rico's representative (as Miss Puerto Rico) to the 1948 Miss America pageant. Although Malen Pietrantoni started Puerto Rico's annual participation in the event in 1937 as Miss Puerto Rico, and Zulma Caballero Lopez participated in 1938, Vázquez is nonetheless generally credited with being the first Puerto Rican contestant in the event, which required all contestants to sign a contract, which then required that "contestant must be in good health and of the white race."