Lota Cheek 1923 photo by George Maillard Kesslere in the Earl Carroll Vanities, featured on the Jan 26 1924 cover of “The Police Gazette.” In 1921 the daughter of Leon Cheek, a farmer from Dawson Georgia. won $1000 in a Boston beauty contest. In 1922, Lota won a New York beauty contest out of 6000 entries and was named America's prettiest girl. Mrs. E C Seimmons named Lota co-respondent in her 1922 divorce case saying her husband had married Lota without getting a divorce.