Mark Teixeira

Mark Teixeira met his wife, Leigh, while attending Georgia Tech on a baseball scholarship; they now have three children.¹ His father was a Navy veteran and his mother a schoolteacher, and his first professional baseball home was with the Texas Rangers.¹

Drafted fifth overall in 2001, Teixeira went on to play 14 Major League seasons, earning three All Star selections and five Gold Gloves.¹ He won the 2009 World Series with the New York Yankees and retired in 2016, then spent four years as a baseball analyst for ESPN.²

His work away from baseball has included managing his own investment portfolio, real estate investment and service on the Georgia Tech Foundation's board.² The Heisman Trophy Trust selected him for its 2018 Humanitarian Award, recognizing scholarship endowments and support for organizations including DREAM, which provides education and youth programs in New York.³

In his first bid for elected office, the Republican faces Democrat Kristin Hook for the seat Chip Roy is leaving.⁴ His platform supports stricter immigration enforcement, expanded domestic oil, gas and nuclear energy production, congressional term limits and parental control over education.⁵ He also supports restrictions on abortion and wants to expand the DOGE effort to cut federal waste and spending.⁵