On her Facebook timeline, Savannah claimed the title of Miss Dominion in 1999, and served as the court attendant to Miss Virginia U.S.A. 2001.Before that, she cited numerous beauty pageants she participated in as a child and teen.And as the student ambassador of Highland Academy, the prestigious girls' prep school, she earned a visit to the White House to meet then-President George W. Bush.Thus, Savannah Winfield Baumgard had been bred for exactly the life she now led.

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