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Jennifer Dupont is a beauty pageant contestant who has achieved the honour of the "Triple Crown" - a title given to those who have achieved state titles in the Miss Teen USA, Miss USA and Miss America programmes. As of 2006, only six women have achieved this feat.

Dupont's first title was Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998. The national Miss Teen USA pageant was held in her home town of Shreveport, Louisiana. Eighteen months later, she won the Miss Louisiana USA 2000 title and at eighteen, was the youngest delegate to compete at Miss USA 2000, held in Branson, Missouri. She failed to place at either pageant.

In 2004 Dupont, now 23, won the Miss America local preliminary title Miss Ouachita Parish and was later crowned Miss Louisiana at the state pageant. At the Miss America 2005 pageant held at Atlantic City, New Jersey she won a preliminary swimsuit award and placed first runner-up to Miss Alabama, Deidre Downs. Dupont bucked the trend among the previous triple crown winners by achieving greater results at Miss America than in the Miss USA/Teen USA pageants.

Whilst still in high school Dupont became a novice elementary school teacher and later graduated from Louisiana State University with a degree in education.

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