27 Facts About Mallory Hagan

Mallory Hytes Hagan Stramara was born on December 23,1988 and is an American former news anchor and beauty queen.

Mallory Hagan won Miss America 2013 as Miss New York 2012 and campaigned unsuccessfully for the Alabama House of Representatives in 2022.

Mallory Hagan 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.

Mallory Hagan 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.

Mallory Hagan was born in Memphis, Tennessee and was raised in Opelika, Alabama.

Mallory Hagan was influenced by her formative years spent with a mother who ran a dance studio in the Auburn-Opelika area, where she was raised.

Mallory Hagan's grandmother ran a dance studio in Tennessee, where Hagan was born.

Mallory Hagan is a former student at Auburn University, where she spent a year studying biomedical science.

Mallory Hagan was a member of the sorority Pi Beta Phi Alabama Gamma chapter, becoming the fourth Pi Beta Phi to become Miss America.

Several sources stated that Mallory Hagan was a Park Slope resident when she won Miss America.

Mallory Hagan had lived in six different Brooklyn neighborhoods between her arrival in 2008 and her Miss America victory in 2013, including Sunset Park and Williamsburg.

Mallory Hagan trained several different physical and mental methods to prepare for the pageant.

Mallory Hagan competed in the Miss Alabama's Outstanding Teen pageant from the ages of 13 to 17 and won the runner-up title once.

In New York Mallory Hagan first participated in the Miss Brooklyn 2010 pageant, wishing to win scholarship money for her education, and to her own surprise won the competition.

Mallory Hagan was crowned Miss America 2013 by outgoing Miss America 2012, Laura Kaeppeler, beating out first runner-up, Miss South Carolina 2012, Ali Rogers.

Mallory Hagan was the fourth Miss New York, second New York City resident, and first Brooklyn resident to serve as Miss America.

Mallory Hagan was derided in the press for gaining weight a few months after becoming Miss America, leading to her becoming a proponent of body positivity.

Mallory Hagan took to the media demanding Haskell and other members of the Miss America Board of Directors, including Tammy Haddad of Haddad Media and Miss America Phyllis George, resign.

Mallory Hagan held a Facebook live stating "I am the storm" in reference to the leaders, such as Haskell, hoping that the "media storm" would blow over.

Mallory Hagan began a T-shirt line that now benefits the newly restructered Miss America Organization.

When she moved to New York, Mallory Hagan first worked there for a few years, before using the scholarship money she had won since 2010 to enroll at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she earned a degree in Advertising, Marketing and Communications.

Mallory Hagan was promoted to news anchor of the station's first evening news show WLTZ First News in April 2017 and worked in that position until February 2018, when she declared her congressional candidacy and moved back to her home town Opelika.

Mallory Hagan ran for Alabama's 3rd congressional district in the 2018 congressional election as a Democrat, after she had been asked to do so by her fellow citizens.

Mallory Hagan was endorsed by the Alabama New South Alliance, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, End Citizens United, Lilly Ledbetter, and received a "Gun Sense Candidate" distinction from Moms Demand Action.

Mallory Hagan was defeated in the election by incumbent Mike Rogers.

Mallory Hagan served as communications director for Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign in Alabama during the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

Mallory Hagan ran for a seat in the Alabama House of Representatives against sitting House Speaker Mac McCutcheon in District 25 in the 2022 election.