Scarlotte Deupree

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Scarlotte Deupree
Born
Scarlotte Deupree

1980 (age 4243)
Other namesScarlotte Kilgore
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title Miss Alabama 2002
Major
competition(s)
Miss America 2003 (1st runner-up)

Scarlotte Deupree Kilgore (born 1980) is an American beauty and performer who held the title of Miss Alabama 2002 and was 1st runner-up to Miss America 2003. [2] [3]

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Miss Alabama

Deupree competed at Miss Alabama as Miss Camellia and had competed in the pageant four previous times. [4] [5]

Her talent was a vocal performance of the song, "Holding Out for a Hero". Her personal platform was adult literacy, which she chose in high school after she discovered that 25 percent of people from Alabama read at a very low reading level. She is a graduate of Samford University. [6] While at Samford, she was inducted into the Kappa Chapter of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority. [7]

Life after Miss Alabama

Deupree is married to Allen Kilgore, a lawyer and corporate attorney at General Electric. They have two daughters named Virginia Price Kilgore and Jordan Lee Kilgore. [8] She is on the board of directors for The Literacy Council and serves on the board of the Birmingham Children's Theater. [9]

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References

  1. "A Camellia blooms". The Greenville Advocate. September 28, 2002. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  2. "Miss Alabama History". Miss Alabama . Retrieved June 11, 2015.
  3. "Miss Alabama". Miss America. Archived from the original on June 12, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2014.
  4. Sessions, Jeff (January 28, 2003). "Tribute To Scarlotte Deupree". Congressional Record . Capitol Words. p. S1663. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
  5. Davis, Tom (2002). "TSU student is first runner-up in Miss Alabama Pageant". Troy University. Archived from the original on June 17, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  6. "Samford Student Scarlotte Deupree Works for Adult Literacy as Miss Alabama". Samford University. Archived from the original on March 3, 2012. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  7. "Accomplished Members - Pageant Winners". Alpha Delta Pi. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014. Retrieved August 7, 2014.
  8. "R. Allen Kilgore, Jr". The Kilgore Firm, LLC. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
  9. "The Literacy Council 2010 Board of Directors". The Literacy Council. Archived from the original on February 21, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2010.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Miss Alabama
2002
Succeeded by