The Mr. America contest is a bodybuilding competition started by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). It was first held on July 4, 1939, and the winner was named America's Best Built Man; from 1940 the title became what is now known as the Mr. America contest. In the mid-1940s Joe and Ben Weider started the IFBB as an alternative to the AAU and held an opposing IFBB Mr. America in 1949 and then from 1959 through 1977. The AAU discontinued holding the contests in 1999, and the rights to the Mr. America name have since been sold several times.
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It was first held on July 4, 1939
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