The search to find the successor of Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith ended. Crystle Stewart, 26, of Missouri City, Texas has been crowned Miss USA beating all the other 50 beauty queens, the Associated Press reports.

Crystle Stewart will represent the country in the Miss Universe contest later this year and she will work with official causes of Miss USA, which contain breast and ovarian cancer education, research and legislation. She will also travel worldwide in order to promote the organizations. Smith relinquished the crown and Stewart was headed for the publicity circuit, showing a great excitement to travel and deliver her message of self-improvement to other young women.

She mentioned she was among the few black women crowned Miss USA in the competition's 57-year history. Regarding the presidential candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Stewart said, “the United States is coming together.” Even though she did not name her preference, Miss USA 2008 claimed that “fundamentally,” she is a democrat.

Crystle Stewart is not beauty but brains also. She runs a motivational speaking and party-planning company, as well as modeling professionally and she completed her degree at the University of Houston in which her area of specialization was Consumer Science and Merchandising.

She declared she was willing to dedicate her life to international philanthropy. “I want to talk to people about how to set a goal and achieve it,” she told The AP after the show. “Because I just achieved my goal,” Stewart added. Miss Alaska USA, Courtney Erin Carroll, was chosen “Miss Photogenic USA” based on voting at the organization's Web site.