Mallory Hytes Hagan ( born December 23 , 1988 ) is an American politician and former beauty queen who won Miss America 2013 as Miss New York 2012 . She moved to New York in 2008 after her first year of college at Auburn University . Prior to winning Miss America , Hagan was also Miss Brooklyn 2010 , Miss Manhattan 2011 , Miss New York City 2012 and a two-time Miss New York first runner-up . When living in Alabama , Hagan had been runner-up in the Miss Alabama 's Outstanding Teen program . As Miss Chattahoochee Valley 2007 , was a non-finalist talent winner at Miss Alabama . She won the Miss America competition on a platform of child sexual abuse awareness and prevention due to her family 's history with child abuse . She also gave a response on the issue of gun control in which she opposed fighting violence with violence . 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
Miss America 2013
Miss America 2013
Mallory Hagan