Mallory Hagan | |
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| Born | December 23, 1988 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Education | Auburn University Fashion Institute of Technology (BA) |
| Occupation | Business consultant |
| Known for | Miss America 2013 Candidate for Congress |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
| Title | Miss Brooklyn 2010 Miss Manhattan 2011 Miss New York City 2012 Miss New York 2012 Miss America 2013 |
| Term | January 12, 2013 – September 15, 2013 |
| Predecessor | Laura Kaeppeler |
| Successor | Nina Davuluri |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Website | Official website |
Mallory Hytes Hagan (born December 23, 1988) is an American politician and former beauty pageant queen, former news anchor and Business Consultant for Sysco Systems. She had won Miss America 2013 as Miss New York 2012 and is running for a seat in the Alabama House of Representatives in 2022.
Hagan moved to New York in 2008 after her first year of college at Auburn University in her native state Alabama. She became Miss New York's first runner-up in 2010 and 2011, before winning the Miss New York pageant in 2012 and subsequently the Miss America peagant in 2013. She won the competition on a platform of child sexual abuse awareness and prevention due to her family's history with child abuse. Following her win, she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a communications degree, returned to Alabama in 2016 and worked for WLTZ as news anchor and reporter between 2016 and 2018.
She ran in the 2018 congressional election as a Democrat in Alabama's 3rd congressional district, which contains 14 counties and includes her hometown of Opelika, Alabama.[1] After moving to Madison, Alabama she ran for District 25 in the Alabama House of Representatives in the 2022 election.[2]
- ^ "Former Miss America shook up the pageant world. Now she wants to shake up Congress". ledger-enquirer. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- ^ "ADP Qualifying List". Alabama Democratic Party. January 29, 2022. Retrieved March 21, 2022.