The person behind the name
Mark Teixeira's public life has run from first base for the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees to a television booth, a school-choice stage and, in 2026, a first campaign for Congress in Texas's 21st District that President Trump endorsed. [5][14][16][29][30]
Major League Baseball's player record gives his full name as Mark Charles Teixeira, born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1980. His campaign biography says he was born to a Navy veteran father and a schoolteacher mother, describes him as a Christian husband and father, and says his five seasons with the Texas Rangers planted the roots of a lifelong connection to the state, to which he moved back in 2021. The San Antonio Express-News places the family home in Lakeway, near Bee Cave, west of Austin; the Texas Tribune and the San Antonio Report give it as Bee Cave. He told the Express-News that he is building a house in Driftwood and will move there if elected. [5][1][32][29][36]
Education and professional preparation
He attended Mount Saint Joseph High School in Baltimore, where the Boston Red Sox drafted him in the ninth round in 1998, and enrolled at Georgia Tech instead; there he won the 2000 Dick Howser Trophy as national collegiate player of the year and met his wife, Leigh. The Texas Rangers took him fifth overall in the 2001 draft after his junior season. He returned to finish the degree in May 2022, graduating from Georgia Tech in business administration, which he told the Associated Press was one of his proudest accomplishments. Transcripts and degree records beyond that report were not part of this review. [5][11][10][1][13]
A public life that began after baseball
He retired after the 2016 season, joined ESPN as a baseball analyst in February 2017 and, by the Houston Chronicle's account, left after the 2020 season. His campaign says he has since supported Governor Greg Abbott, Congressman Chip Roy and President Trump and partnered with the Texas Public Policy Foundation on educational freedom; the foundation's own event listing billed him as a speaker at a May 30, 2024 program on education savings accounts. The Express-News reported that voting records show a lifelong Republican who regularly voted in general elections and, after a correction based on information from his campaign, that he had voted in one Republican primary before his own. [8][14][25][1][16][32]
He announced his candidacy on August 28, 2025, a week after Roy announced he was leaving Congress to run for attorney general, and on March 3, 2026 won the Republican primary outright with 58,180 votes, 60.92 percent, against eleven other names on the ballot. He faces Kristin Hook, the Democratic nominee and the party's 2024 candidate, on November 3, 2026. [28][27][26][17][18][20][21]
A note on the record. Teixeira has never held public office. This profile therefore contains no votes, bills or agency actions; it documents a professional career from league and university records, a campaign from the Secretary of State's results and the Federal Election Commission's filings, and stated positions from the campaign's own pages. [5][17][22][2]
Life & public service
From a Maryland high school to the Bronx, and from the broadcast booth to a Hill Country ballot, the documented milestones show what the record contains and what it does not.
Georgia Tech, then fifth overall
Three seasons at Georgia Tech: a .409 career batting average, the 2000 Dick Howser Trophy as national player of the year, ACC Player of the Year and consensus first-team All-America honors, by the university's athletics department. The Texas Rangers took him with the fifth pick of the 2001 draft. [10][5]
Heisman Humanitarian
The Heisman Trophy Trust named him its 2018 Heisman Humanitarian for his charitable work, with a $75,000 donation to DREAM. [11]
Accomplishments, in the record
League records, university and award documents, the Secretary of State's results and Federal Election Commission filings establish the following. Teixeira has never held public office, so there are no votes or bills; the record is professional, civic and electoral, and it is described at the level those documents support.
Fourteen seasons, 409 home runs
Major League Baseball's player record shows 1,862 games and 1,862 hits over fourteen seasons with the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels and New York Yankees: 409 home runs, 1,298 runs batted in, a .268 batting average, a .360 on-base percentage and a .509 slugging percentage. The league's award record lists three All-Star selections (2005, 2009 and 2015), five Rawlings Gold Gloves at first base (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2012) and three Silver Sluggers (2004, 2005 and 2009). [5]
A switch hitter, he reached 400 home runs on July 3, 2016, joining Mickey Mantle, Eddie Murray, Chipper Jones and Carlos Beltrán as the only switch hitters to do so at that time, by the league's own account; MLB.com's retirement story also records eight straight seasons of at least 30 home runs and 100 runs batted in, and 305 games missed over the previous five seasons. [8]
A league leader, and the final out
In his first season in New York he drove in 122 runs, the most in the American League, and his 39 home runs tied Carlos Peña for the league lead, by the league's leader tables. He finished second in the Most Valuable Player voting, and the final out of the 2009 World Series landed in his glove. The contract that brought him to the Yankees was an eight-year, $180 million agreement, as MLB.com described it at his retirement. [7][14][8]
National player of the year, and a degree twenty-one years later
Georgia Tech's athletics department records a .409 career batting average over three seasons, the 2000 Dick Howser Trophy as national collegiate player of the year, the 2000 ACC Player of the Year award, consensus first-team All-America honors, a retired number and, in September 2024, selection to the National College Baseball Hall of Fame. He left after his junior season as the fifth pick of the 2001 draft and returned to finish: the Associated Press reported in May 2022 that he would graduate that week with a degree in business administration. [10][5][13]
Scholarships, Harlem RBI and the Heisman Humanitarian Award
Major League Baseball's 2012 Clemente Award announcement records that he and his wife established the Mark Teixeira Charitable Fund in 2006, which awarded scholarships to students at several Dallas–Fort Worth high schools; that he gave $1 million to Harlem RBI in 2011; and that he co-chaired the organization's $20 million capital campaign for a charter school, a community center and low-income housing in East Harlem. He was the Yankees' nominee for the award that year, one of 30 club finalists, and the league's September 2015 announcement of club nominees listed him again for the Yankees; that is the record behind the campaign's statement that he was twice a finalist. [9][42][1]
In October 2018 the Heisman Trophy Trust named him its 13th Heisman Humanitarian, citing scholarship endowments at Mount Saint Joseph High School and Georgia Tech, his board service with the Emerald Corridor Foundation in Atlanta and his support of DREAM, the successor to Harlem RBI; the award carried a $75,000 donation to DREAM. [11]
Broadcasting, investing and the school-choice stage
ESPN announced in February 2017 that he was joining its baseball coverage as an analyst; the Houston Chronicle reports that he left after the 2020 season. In his answers to the San Antonio Report's candidate questionnaire he wrote that since retiring he has been “involved in investing in small businesses, startups, and real estate” and has “worked with the Texas Public Policy Foundation.” The foundation's event page lists him as a speaker, with Corey DeAngelis, at its Parent Empowerment Coalition program on education savings accounts on May 30, 2024. The Texas Tribune reported that he gave $2,800 to Roy's campaign in 2021, and the Express-News that he gave more than $5,000 to Trump in the 2020 cycle. [14][25][36][16][28][32]
What the FEC filings show
Through June 30, 2026 the Federal Election Commission records $3,922,216.15 in receipts for Mark Teixeira for Congress, his principal campaign committee. Of that, $2,750,000.00 was loaned by the candidate, $750,385.65 came from individuals ($737,989.57 itemized), $299,830.50 from other committees and $122,000.00 in transfers from other authorized committees; no party committee money is recorded. Disbursements were $3,540,015.15, cash on hand $382,201.00, and the committee owed $2,750,000.00 in debts — the candidate's loans, unrepaid. The commission also lists a sponsored leadership PAC, Truth and Excellence PAC. [22]
The pre-primary report covering January 1 to February 11, 2026 shows $1,979,087.93 in net operating expenditures for that period alone, $2,446,167.90 for the cycle to that date, and $1,007,430.36 in cash on hand three weeks before the primary. The Democratic nominee's committee reported $243,839.48 in receipts and $104,069.01 in cash on hand through June 30, 2026. [23][24]
Sixty percent in a twelve-name field
The Secretary of State's results for the March 3, 2026 Republican primary in the 21st District, with all 254 counties reporting, record 58,180 votes for Teixeira, 60.92 percent of 95,502 cast. Jason Cahill received 9,043 (9.47 percent); James “Trey” Trainor III, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, 8,497 (8.90 percent); and Mike Wheeler 6,593 (6.90 percent). No other candidate reached 3 percent. Kyle Sinclair, who had ended his campaign and endorsed Teixeira, remained on the ballot and received 1,947. A majority avoided the May 26 runoff. [17][33][38]
In the Democratic primary Kristin Hook received 39,779 votes, 60.05 percent of 66,240, over Regina Vanburg and Gary Taylor. Roy, whose departure opened the seat, finished second in the Republican primary for attorney general with 31.60 percent and lost the May 26 runoff to Mayes Middleton, 614,009 to 757,625. [18][19]
Trump, Abbott, the Speaker and the Club
President Trump endorsed him on Truth Social on February 4, 2026, calling him a “TOTAL WINNER, on and off the field!” The campaign's endorsement page lists Governor Greg Abbott, Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan and nine members of the Texas delegation, along with Club for Growth PAC, the National Border Patrol Council, Texas Farm Bureau AGFUND, the Cattle Raisers PAC, the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas and the San Antonio Police Officers Association. The San Antonio Report documented Club for Growth television advertising on his behalf before the primary. Endorsements establish political support; they are not evaluations of a record. [30][3][34]
Family & community
His campaign biography identifies his wife as Leigh, whom he met at Georgia Tech, and says they have three children, Jack, Addison and William; it describes his parents as a Navy veteran and a schoolteacher. The Express-News reported that the family lives in Lakeway, near Bee Cave, that his church is in Dripping Springs, that his children attend Regents, a private Christian school, and that he says he is building a house in Driftwood. [1][32]
Community roles as the documents state them: the Mark Teixeira Charitable Fund, established with his wife in 2006 to fund high-school scholarships in the Dallas–Fort Worth area; a $1 million gift to Harlem RBI and co-chairmanship of its capital campaign; board service with the Emerald Corridor Foundation, an Atlanta greenspace nonprofit (a 2016 GreenSportsBlog interview introduced him as a board member and founding investor, and in it he called himself the lead investor); and scholarship endowments at his high school and university, as the Heisman Trophy Trust recorded in 2018. [9][15][11]
His campaign biography describes him as “a Christian husband, father, and former MLB All-Star” and says the family is active in its local church; it names no denomination, and this profile makes no claim beyond that statement. He told the Express-News, “If God wants me in Washington, that’s where I’ll be.” [1][32]
Mission & priorities
“As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I’m ready to fight for the principles that make Texas strong and America exceptional. It takes teamwork to win, and I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families, and individual liberty.” {1}
The following summarizes the eleven planks on Teixeira's campaign website and his answers to the San Antonio Report's candidate questionnaire. These are proposed priorities from a candidate who has never cast a legislative vote, not completed accomplishments. [2][36]
01Border security and immigration enforcement
“Fully secure the southern border, deport illegal aliens, and crush the cartels to keep Texans safe.” To the San Antonio Report he wrote that “We don’t need major immigration reform, we need major immigration enforcement,” and that as a member from a border state he would give direct input on funding for ICE, CBP and Homeland Security. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a Minneapolis resident in January 2026, he wrote on X, “I stand with ICE.” [2][36][29]
02Spending, DOGE and the economy
“Expand DOGE to cut insane wasteful spending, rein in the Deep State, and grow the economy by putting taxpayers first.” Asked by Hearst Newspapers for a policy he would like to see enacted, he said he wanted “way more auditing” and “way more oversight” of public spending, and he told a Republican debate audience in January 2026 that his own party's members should be asked why they vote for “runaway spending.” [2][32][33]
03Schools, parents and DEI
“End radical woke indoctrination, defend parental rights, kill DEI, restore patriotic education rooted in American and Texas values.” The record here predates the campaign: the Texas Public Policy Foundation billed him as a speaker at its May 2024 program on education savings accounts, the Tribune and the Express-News reported his work with the foundation to promote vouchers, and the Tribune reported his support for Governor Abbott's private-school voucher push. He has also said he wants to keep “biological men out of our girls’ sports,” as the Express-News reported, and told the Young Republicans of Bexar County that he would be “hammering every single day” for a ban on biological men in women's sports and for proof of citizenship to vote. [2][16][28][29][32][35]
04Energy
“Unleash Texas oil, gas, and nuclear to restore U.S. energy dominance and drive down costs for families.” His questionnaire answer adds grid modernization, research and infrastructure among the federal supports he would back. The Oil & Gas Workers Association's endorsement appears on the campaign site. [2][36][3]
05Life, faith and the Second Amendment
“Protect the unborn, safeguard religious liberty, and fight against Cultural Marxism,” and “Protect the God-given right to keep and bear arms from any infringement, federal or otherwise.” The Express-News noted that he has repeatedly spoken publicly about his opposition to abortion, including in a 2012 interview. [2][32]
06Elections
“Make sure only U.S. citizens vote in elections and make it impossible to cheat.” Requiring proof of citizenship to vote was, with the sports ban, one of two issues he told the Young Republicans of Bexar County he would be “hammering every single day” if he were in Congress now. [2][35]
07Health care and the safety net
“Lower costs, expand choice, and stop Washington from controlling your healthcare decisions.” In his questionnaire he wrote that he would work to track down fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, ensure that “Texas citizens are the only ones receiving care from those programs,” and open insurance markets to more competition. [2][36]
08Term limits, and an outsider's case
“End the era of career politicians by enacting term limits and holding Congress accountable to the people.” He has presented his lack of political experience as the point: “This is the first time I have run for anything. I didn’t run for student council as a kid. I have never run for anything in my life,” he told a Bexar County Republican audience in February 2026. [2][35]
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes the questions a first-time candidate has been asked, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.
Residence, and a district line
Teixeira lives just outside the district, west of Austin: in Lakeway, near Bee Cave, by the Express-News's account, and in Bee Cave by the Tribune's and the San Antonio Report's. The San Antonio Report noted at a January 22, 2026 debate that his home was not inside the 21st District under either the old or the new map, and rivals asked for a show of hands on who lived in the district. Daniel Betts: “If you are running for this seat and you don’t live in District 21, you are running for yourself.” Teixeira told the Express-News that his church is in Dripping Springs, that his home was within the district when he first moved to Texas, before the Legislature redrew the map in 2025, and that he is building a house in Driftwood and will move there if elected. Congressional candidates are not required to live in the district they seek to represent, as the San Antonio Report noted; the question is political rather than legal. [33][32][29][36][28]
Self-funding, and “buying a seat”
The Express-News framed the primary's central criticism in its January 20, 2026 headline: critics said he was buying a seat. The filings support the scale. The candidate had loaned $2,750,000 by February 11, 2026; the committee spent $1,979,087.93 in the six weeks before early voting, far more than any rival, the San Antonio Report found; and Club for Growth television advertising came on top. His answer was to make the money the argument: “It is a huge selling point for voters that I can’t be bought,” he told Hearst, adding that his wealth would insulate him from donors, lobbyists and special interests. Whether it does is a judgment for voters; the loans remained on the committee's books as $2,750,000 in debt at June 30, 2026. [32][23][34][22]
Primary voting, and a short political history
Before his own primary he had voted in one Republican primary, the Express-News reported after a correction supplied by the campaign; the paper said voting records show a lifelong Republican who regularly voted in general elections, and, citing Politico, it found little record of political activity before a 2015 fundraiser he co-hosted for Senator Marco Rubio's presidential campaign, followed by donations of more than $5,000 to Trump in the 2020 cycle and, per the Tribune, $2,800 to Roy in 2021. Opponents' volunteers worked the debate crowd on his “lack of Republican voting history.” His explanation: “I always had the mindset that, because I'm so busy, I'm playing baseball and traveling the country, the people that know who (the candidates) are, let them vote for in the primary,” and that he would vote in primaries from now on, win or lose. [32][33][28]
The 2016 climate interview and the flyers
At the January debate a volunteer distributed flyers on comments he made a decade earlier about athletes and climate change, and on “connections to a charter school that promoted its DEI policies,” the San Antonio Report reported; it did not name the school. The comments are on the record: in a February 2016 interview with GreenSportsBlog about the Emerald Corridor Foundation, he said, “I know that athletes have been slow to get into the environment and climate change,” predicted that “the environment will catch on with athletes” and said he planned to remain an “Eco-Athlete” after his playing days. No response from the campaign to the flyers appears in the sources reviewed; the Tribune noted that his 2026 positions align with the Trump administration on border security, spending and gun rights. [33][39][15][29]
Trump as the model, and the endorsement as the turning point
He has cast himself as a Trump-style outsider: “[Trump] went to Washington, D.C. as an outsider. He had already been successful. He was already rich and powerful and famous,” he said at the January debate, adding that he felt the two had a lot in common. The endorsement came on February 4, 2026, five days after a Democrat flipped a Fort Worth state Senate seat in a special election that, the San Antonio Report wrote, left Republican leaders eager to wrap up messy primaries. Kyle Sinclair ended his campaign to back Teixeira, saying the race was at an inflection point, and Club for Growth's advertising cited the endorsement three times. Trey Trainor, whom Trump had appointed to the Federal Election Commission, stayed in and finished third; Daniel Betts, who carried the San Antonio Express-News's endorsement by the Tribune's account, received 1,941 votes. [33][35][30][3][34][29][17]
The general election, and what is not yet known
The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections and Sabato's Crystal Ball each rated the seat Safe or Solid Republican as of October 2025, and The Hill reported after the primary that the Cook Political Report rated it solidly Republican. In 2024 Roy defeated Hook 263,744 to 153,765, with 8,914 for the Libertarian, in the House Clerk's statistics; the district, as redrawn, takes in parts of Bexar and Hays counties and all of Real, Kerr, Kendall, Gillespie, Comal, Blanco and Bandera counties. Hook's campaign site describes her as a former scientist who worked in the Senate, at the National Institutes of Health and at the Government Accountability Office; her committee's receipts through June 30, 2026 were $243,839.48 against his $3,922,216.15. No public general-election poll, and no reporting on the race after the March primary beyond the mid-year filings, was located by searches made for this review in September 2026. [40][31][21][37][41][24][22]
Questions & answers
Who is Mark Teixeira?
Mark Teixeira's public life has run from first base for the Texas Rangers and the New York Yankees to a television booth, a school-choice stage and, in 2026, a first campaign for Congress in Texas's 21st District that President Trump endorsed. [5][14][16][29][30] Major League Baseball's player record gives his full name as Mark Charles Teixeira, born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1980. His campaign biography says he was born to a Navy veteran father and a schoolteacher mother, describes him as a Christian husband and father, and says his five seasons with the Texas Rangers planted the roots of a lifelong connection to the state, to which he moved back in 2021. The San Antonio Express-News places the family home in Lakeway, near Bee Cave, west of Austin; the Texas Tribune and the San Antonio Report give it as Bee Cave. He told the Express-News that he is building a house in Driftwood and will move there if elected. [5][1][32][29][36]
What office is Mark Teixeira running for in 2026?
Who is Mark Teixeira running against?
He announced his candidacy on August 28, 2025, a week after Roy announced he was leaving Congress to run for attorney general, and on March 3, 2026 won the Republican primary outright with 58,180 votes, 60.92 percent, against eleven other names on the ballot. He faces Kristin Hook, the Democratic nominee and the party's 2024 candidate, on November 3, 2026. [28][27][26][17][18][20][21]
What are Mark Teixeira's stated priorities?
The following summarizes the eleven planks on Teixeira's campaign website and his answers to the San Antonio Report's candidate questionnaire. These are proposed priorities from a candidate who has never cast a legislative vote, not completed accomplishments. [2][36] The campaign lists: Border security and immigration enforcement; Spending, DOGE and the economy; Schools, parents and DEI; Energy; Life, faith and the Second Amendment; Elections; Health care and the safety net; Term limits, and an outsider's case.
What does the public record show?
League records, university and award documents, the Secretary of State's results and Federal Election Commission filings establish the following. Teixeira has never held public office, so there are no votes or bills; the record is professional, civic and electoral, and it is described at the level those documents support. Major League Baseball's player record shows 1,862 games and 1,862 hits over fourteen seasons with the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels and New York Yankees: 409 home runs, 1,298 runs batted in, a .268 batting average, a .360 on-base percentage and a .509 slugging percentage. The league's award record lists three All-Star selections (2005, 2009 and 2015), five Rawlings Gold Gloves at first base (2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2012) and three Silver Sluggers (2004, 2005 and 2009). [5]
How was this profile researched?
Reviewed September 17, 2026. Mark Teixeira has never held public office, so this profile contains no votes, bills or agency actions; it is a documented overview of his professional, civic and electoral record and his stated priorities. The baseball record was read from Major League Baseball's public statistics service and MLB.com, Georgia Tech's athletics department, the Heisman Trophy Trust and the Baseball Writers' Association of America, not from contracts or personnel files. His candidate financial disclosure filed with the Clerk of the House, tax records, business holdings and voter-history files were not part of this review; the Express-News's account of his primary voting is recorded as that newspaper's reporting. Ballotpedia's candidate and race pages could not be retrieved and are not cited; the Secretary of State's certified list of general-election candidates was not available to this review, and searches on September 17 and 18, 2026 found no public poll and no reporting on the general election after the primary. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
Sources & methodology
Government records anchor the profile: the Secretary of State's results, the Federal Election Commission's filings and the House Clerk's election statistics. League, university and award documents establish the professional record; original reporting supplies scrutiny and responses; campaign materials are used for the candidate's own priorities and claims.
- 01Home | Mark “Tex” Teixeira for Congress (campaign biography)Teixeira for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Campaign biography: Navy veteran father and schoolteacher mother, Georgia Tech, five Rangers seasons, awards, the 2021 move back to Texas, wife Leigh and three children, “active in their local Church.” Self-descriptions; the statement quoted as the campaign's stated purpose.Campaign or advocacy material - 02Issues | Mark “Tex” Teixeira for CongressTeixeira for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The eleven campaign planks quoted in this profile. Proposals, not record.Campaign or advocacy material - 03Endorsements | Mark “Tex” Teixeira for CongressTeixeira for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The endorsements as the campaign lists them, including Trump, Abbott, Speaker Johnson, Scalise, Jordan, nine Texas members, Club for Growth PAC, the National Border Patrol Council, Texas Farm Bureau AGFUND, the Cattle Raisers PAC, CLEAT, SAPOA and Kyle Sinclair's withdrawal statement.Campaign or advocacy material - 04News | Mark “Tex” Teixeira for CongressTeixeira for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign's log of television appearances from August 31, 2025 onward (Fox News, Newsmax, OutKick, Will Cain), in its own words.Campaign or advocacy material - 05Player record: Mark Teixeira (id 407893) — career hitting, awards and draft historyMajor League Baseball (MLB Stats API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Full name, birth date and place, debut April 1, 2003 and last game October 2, 2016; 1,862 games, 409 home runs, 1,298 RBI, .268/.360/.509; All-Star, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger and World Series entries; the 1998 (Red Sox, ninth round) and 2001 (Rangers, fifth overall) draft selections. Read through the league's public statistics service.Professional or biographical source - 06Player record: Mark Teixeira — year-by-year hittingMajor League Baseball (MLB Stats API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Season lines from 2003 to 2016, including 26 home runs in 2003, 43 home runs and 144 RBI in 2005 and the split 2007 and 2008 seasons.Professional or biographical source - 072009 American League leaders — home runs and runs batted inMajor League Baseball (MLB Stats API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Teixeira first in RBI with 122 and tied for first in home runs with 39 (with Carlos Peña).Professional or biographical source - 08Mark Teixeira to retire after 2016MLB.com · August 5, 2016
The retirement announcement: the final out of the 2009 World Series, eight straight 30-homer, 100-RBI seasons, the 400th home run on July 3, 2016 and the switch hitters who preceded him, 305 games missed in five seasons, the eight-year, $180 million contract.Professional or biographical source - 09Mark Teixeira named New York Yankees nominee for the 2012 Roberto Clemente AwardMLB.com · September 18, 2012
One of 30 club finalists; the Mark Teixeira Charitable Fund (2006), the $1 million Harlem RBI gift (2011) and the $20 million capital campaign he co-chaired.Professional or biographical source - 10Mark Teixeira Selected for Induction into College Baseball Hall of FameGeorgia Tech Athletics · September 6, 2024
The 2000 Dick Howser Trophy, ACC Player of the Year, consensus first-team All-America, .409 career average over three seasons, a retired number, the 2001 draft and the 2024 Hall of Fame class.Professional or biographical source - 11Mark Teixeira Selected as 2018 Heisman HumanitarianHeisman Trophy Trust · October 22, 2018
The 13th Heisman Humanitarian Award; scholarship endowments at Mount Saint Joseph High School and Georgia Tech, the Emerald Corridor Foundation board, DREAM, and the $75,000 donation. The page's description of his 2009 statistics differs from the league record and is not used.Professional or biographical source - 12Red Sox slugger David Ortiz elected to Hall of Fame (2022 election results)Baseball Writers' Association of America · January 25, 2022
394 ballots cast; Teixeira 6 votes (1.5 percent), below the five percent needed to remain on the ballot.Professional or biographical source - 13Former MLB star Mark Teixeira earns Georgia Tech degreeAssociated Press (Paul Newberry), via ABC 17 News · May 5, 2022
Graduation from Georgia Tech with a degree in business administration more than two decades after leaving for professional baseball.Independent reporting - 14Retired slugger Mark Teixeira joins ESPN as a baseball analystESPN · February 6, 2017
ESPN's announcement of his analyst role; career line and the second-place finish in the 2009 American League MVP voting.Independent reporting - 15The GSB Interview: Mark Teixeira of the NY YankeesGreenSportsBlog · February 17, 2016
The 2016 interview cited by primary opponents: the Emerald Corridor Foundation, the blog's description of him as a board member and founding investor, his own description of himself as the lead investor, and his remarks on athletes and climate change. The candidate's own words.Independent reporting - 16The Parent Empowerment Coalition (event listing)Texas Public Policy Foundation · May 30, 2024
Lists Teixeira as a speaker, with Corey DeAngelis and TPPF's Mandy Drogin, on education savings accounts and the “Parent Empowerment movement.” An advocacy organization's own page.Independent analysis or rating - 172026 Republican Primary Election — U.S. Representative District 21 (official results)Texas Secretary of State (election results site) · March 3, 2026; results last updated April 14, 2026
Teixeira 58,180 (60.92 percent) of 95,502; Cahill 9,043; Trainor 8,497; Wheeler 6,593; Sinclair 1,947; twelve names; 254 of 254 counties. Select the 2026 Republican Primary Election on the linked page; figures read through the site's data service (election 53813).Government record - 182026 Democratic Primary Election — U.S. Representative District 21 (official results)Texas Secretary of State (election results site) · March 3, 2026; results last updated March 24, 2026
Hook 39,779 (60.05 percent) of 66,240; Vanburg 18,614; Taylor 7,847. Select the 2026 Democratic Primary Election on the linked page; figures read through the site's data service (election 53814).Government record - 192026 Republican Primary (March 3) and Primary Runoff (May 26) — Attorney General (official results)Texas Secretary of State (election results site) · March 3 and May 26, 2026; results last updated April 14 and June 12, 2026
Primary: Middleton 811,171 (39.13 percent), Roy 655,064 (31.60 percent), Huffman 312,998, Reitz 293,698. Runoff: Middleton 757,625 (55.24 percent), Roy 614,009 (44.76 percent). Elections 53813 and 58315 on the site's data service.Government record - 20Important Election DatesTexas Secretary of State · Accessed September 17, 2026
The March 3, 2026 primary and the November 3, 2026 general election; October 5 as the last day to register.Government record - 21Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 5, 2024Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · 2025
Texas District 21, 2024: Chip Roy (Republican) 263,744; Kristin Hook (Democrat) 153,765; Bob King (Libertarian) 8,914.Government record - 22Candidate overview: TEIXEIRA, MARK CHARLES (H6TX21301)Federal Election Commission · Coverage July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
Principal committee Mark Teixeira for Congress (C00917658); receipts $3,922,216.15, individual contributions $750,385.65, other committees $299,830.50, transfers $122,000.00, candidate loans $2,750,000.00, disbursements $3,540,015.15, cash on hand $382,201.00, debts $2,750,000.00; leadership PAC Truth and Excellence PAC.Government record - 23FEC Form 3, Mark Teixeira for Congress — 12-day pre-primary report (January 1 to February 11, 2026)Federal Election Commission (filing image 202602199834771315) · Filed February 19, 2026
Candidate loans $250,000.00 for the period and $2,750,000.00 for the cycle; net operating expenditures $1,979,087.93 for the period and $2,446,167.90 for the cycle; cash on hand $1,007,430.36; debts owed by the committee $2,750,000.00; contributions to date $716,723.26.Government record - 24All candidates summary file, 2025–2026 (weball26.zip)Federal Election Commission (bulk data) · Coverage through June 30, 2026
Candidate identifiers and summary totals: Hook (H4TX21108) receipts $243,839.48, disbursements $144,127.63, cash on hand $104,069.01; Teixeira (H6TX21301) receipts $3,922,216.15. A pipe-delimited data file.Government record - 25Touting support for Donald Trump, ex-Rangers, Yankees star Mark Teixeira vying for Congress in TexasHouston Chronicle (Matt Young) · August 28, 2025
The announcement; the 2007 trade after a declined extension, the 2008 trade to the Angels, the Yankees contract, ESPN until after the 2020 season, the 2021 move to Central Texas.Independent reporting - 26U.S. Rep. Chip Roy announces run for Texas attorney generalHouston Chronicle (Taylor Goldenstein) · August 21, 2025
Roy's August 21, 2025 announcement, which opened the 21st District seat.Independent reporting - 27Ex-MLB star Teixeira running for U.S. House seat in TexasAssociated Press, via ESPN · August 28, 2025
The wire account of the announcement: the statement posted on X, the pledge to secure the border and end “radical woke indoctrination,” and Daniel Betts's earlier filing.Independent reporting - 28Former MLB player Mark Teixeira announces run for 21st Congressional DistrictThe Texas Tribune (Marijke Friedman) · August 28, 2025
Paperwork filed and announcement made on August 28, 2025, a week after Roy; the $2,800 contribution to Roy's 2021 campaign; work with the Texas Public Policy Foundation on vouchers.Independent reporting - 29Mark Teixeira lands Trump endorsement in bid for CongressThe Texas Tribune (Olivia Borgula) · February 10, 2026
The field of twelve; Teixeira's residence in Bee Cave; the carpetbagger charge; the climate-change flyers; “I stand with ICE”; support for Abbott's voucher push; Trainor's FEC appointment.Independent reporting - 30Donald Trump throws support behind former MLB star Mark Teixeira in Texas House raceThe Hill · February 5, 2026
The Truth Social endorsement of Wednesday, February 4, 2026, quoted; Teixeira's reply.Independent reporting - 31Teixeira secures GOP nod in bid to succeed Roy in TexasThe Hill · March 3, 2026
The primary call; Cook Political Report's solid-Republican rating; Roy's 2024 margin over Hook.Independent reporting - 32A former MLB star is a frontrunner for Congress in Texas. Critics say he’s buying a seat.San Antonio Express-News (Bayliss Wagner) · January 20, 2026
Residence in Lakeway; the church, school and Driftwood house; one Republican primary vote (as corrected); the 2015 Rubio fundraiser and 2020 Trump donations; his responses on money, experience and faith.Independent reporting - 33TX21 candidates bring conservative heat to San Antonio debateSan Antonio Report · January 23, 2026
The January 22, 2026 Bexar County Republican Party debate: residence, the show of hands, Betts's remark, the flyers on climate and a charter school, Teixeira's comparison of himself to Trump and his “runaway spending” remark.Independent reporting - 34D.C. PACs swoop in for newcomer San Antonio congressional candidatesSan Antonio Report (Andrea Drusch) · February 20, 2026
Club for Growth television advertising for Teixeira, citing Trump's endorsement three times; $2.75 million of his own money; close to $2 million spent between January 1 and February 11.Independent reporting - 35Republicans rally around former MLB player Mark Teixeira to replace U.S. Rep. Chip RoySan Antonio Report · March 3, 2026
Election-night account: the nomination without a runoff, Hook as the Democratic nominee, Sinclair's withdrawal, the January 30 special election, and his remarks to the Young Republicans of Bexar County.Independent reporting - 36Mark Teixeira | 2026 candidate for Texas' 21st Congressional District (candidate questionnaire)San Antonio Report · January 7, 2026; updated July 15, 2026
The candidate's written answers: investing since retirement, work with TPPF, immigration enforcement, DOGE, energy and infrastructure, Medicare and Medicaid fraud, insurance markets. His own words, as published.Independent reporting - 37Former MLB player Mark Teixeira wins crowded 21st Congressional District Republican primaryKUT 90.5 (Leigh Walden) · March 4, 2026
The 60.9 percent result and the counties in the district: parts of Hays and Bexar and all of Real, Kerr, Kendall, Gillespie, Comal, Blanco and Bandera.Independent reporting - 3814 candidates crowd primary race for Texas Congressional District 21KSAT (Zaria Oates) · February 20, 2026
Sinclair's withdrawal with his name still on the ballot; the candidates' stated initiatives; Hook's 2024 share.Independent reporting - 39Open Congressional District 21 Sees 15 Candidates to Succeed Congressman Chip RoyThe Texan · February 24, 2026
The pushback at the January debate over the 2016 interview, with a link to the interview itself; the field and its fundraising as of the year-end reports.Independent reporting - 40Thirteen candidates are running in the Republican primary for Texas' 21st Congressional District on March 3, 2026Ballotpedia News (Andrew Kronaizl) · October 29, 2025
Cook, Inside Elections and Sabato's Crystal Ball ratings of Safe/Solid Republican as of October 2025; Trainor's FEC service 2020–2025; the December 8, 2025 filing deadline.Independent analysis or rating - 41Home | Dr. Kristin Hook for CongressHook for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The Democratic nominee's self-description: research career, Senate, National Institutes of Health and Government Accountability Office service.Campaign or advocacy material - 42Voting underway for Roberto Clemente Award (the 30 club nominees for 2015)MLB.com (Mark Newman) · September 16, 2015
The league's list of the 30 club nominees for the 2015 Roberto Clemente Award, including Mark Teixeira of the New York Yankees; the second of his two club nominations.Professional or biographical source
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Scope & method. Reviewed September 17, 2026. Mark Teixeira has never held public office, so this profile contains no votes, bills or agency actions; it is a documented overview of his professional, civic and electoral record and his stated priorities. The baseball record was read from Major League Baseball's public statistics service and MLB.com, Georgia Tech's athletics department, the Heisman Trophy Trust and the Baseball Writers' Association of America, not from contracts or personnel files. His candidate financial disclosure filed with the Clerk of the House, tax records, business holdings and voter-history files were not part of this review; the Express-News's account of his primary voting is recorded as that newspaper's reporting. Ballotpedia's candidate and race pages could not be retrieved and are not cited; the Secretary of State's certified list of general-election candidates was not available to this review, and searches on September 17 and 18, 2026 found no public poll and no reporting on the general election after the primary. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
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Voting in Texas: official dates, deadlines and rules
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The dates and rules below were read from the Texas Secretary of State; the authority's own page, linked beside each one, is the final word.
Dates and deadlines
- Voter registration deadlineMonday, October 5, 2026. An application counts if it is postmarked by that date or received in the county voter registrar's office by that date. A voter registration application filled out online must still be printed and sent to the county voter registrar's office. Read from: votetexas.gov/faq/registration.html
- Ballots sent to military and overseas (FPCA) votersSaturday, September 19, 2026 — deadline for county election officials to mail or email ballots to military and overseas voters who applied with a Federal Post Card Application (FPCA); for an FPCA received after that date, the ballot goes out no later than the seventh calendar day after it is received. This date applies to FPCA voters only. Read from: sos.texas.gov/elections/laws/advisory2026-03.shtml
- Early voting in person beginsMonday, October 19, 2026 — first day of early voting by personal appearance. Read from: votetexas.gov/faq/early-voting.html
- Early voting in person endsFriday, October 30, 2026 — last day of early voting by personal appearance. Read from: votetexas.gov/faq/early-voting.html
- Deadline to apply for a ballot by mail (received, not postmarked)Friday, October 23, 2026. The Application for Ballot by Mail (ABBM) must be received — not just postmarked — by the early voting clerk in the county where you are registered, before the close of regular business or 12 noon, whichever is later. Read from: votetexas.gov/voting-by-mail/application-for-ballot-by-mail.html
- Deadline to return a ballot by mail (received by)The early voting clerk must receive the ballot by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, if the carrier envelope is not postmarked; or by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 (the next business day), if the carrier envelope is postmarked by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day at the location of the election. Different deadlines apply to overseas and military voters. Read from: sos.texas.gov/elections/voter/important-election-dates.shtml
- Polling place hours on Election Day7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026, at all polling places statewide. Read from: votetexas.gov/voting/where.html
Rules to know
- What to bringVoters who have one of seven acceptable forms of photo ID must present it when voting in person: a Texas driver license, Texas Election Identification Certificate, Texas personal identification card or Texas handgun license issued by the Department of Public Safety (DPS); a U.S. military ID card with photo; a U.S. citizenship certificate with photo; or a U.S. passport. For voters aged 18–69 the ID may be expired no more than four years; for voters 70 or older, for any length of time. A voter who does not have one of these and cannot reasonably obtain one may show a supporting form of ID — such as a voter registration certificate, current utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck — and sign a Reasonable Impediment Declaration. A voter who has an acceptable ID but does not bring it may vote provisionally and has six days to show it to the county voter registrar. Read from: votetexas.gov/voting/need-id.html
- Who may vote by mail and how to applyVoting by mail in Texas is limited to voters who are 65 or older on Election Day; sick or disabled; expecting to give birth within three weeks before or after Election Day; absent from their county of registration during the early voting period and on Election Day; civilly committed under Chapter 841 of the Texas Health and Safety Code; or confined in jail but otherwise eligible. To ask for a ballot, send an Application for Ballot by Mail (ABBM) to the early voting clerk in the county where you are registered — in person, by mail, by common or contract carrier, or by fax or email (if faxed or emailed, the application must also be mailed so that the clerk receives it no later than the fourth business day after the clerk received the fax or email). VoteTexas.gov says a voter who applies because of an expected absence may apply in person before the period of early voting in person begins (Monday, October 19, 2026). The ABBM must include your Texas driver license, Texas personal ID or Election Identification Certificate number or, if you have none of these, the last four digits of your Social Security number. Read from: votetexas.gov/voting-by-mail/eligibility-requirements.html
- Early voting in personAny registered voter may vote early in person; no special qualification is required. From October 19 through October 30, 2026, you may vote at any early voting location in your county of registration. Hours vary by location. Early voting locations appear in the state's My Voter Portal two days before the first day of early voting, and the early voting clerk in your county can also provide them. Read from: votetexas.gov/faq/early-voting.html
- Track your ballot by mailAfter you send your ballot by mail to your county's early voting clerk, you can check its status in the Ballot by Mail Tracker on the Texas Secretary of State's My Voter Portal. To log in, enter your first and last name, your date of birth, the last four digits of your Social Security number, and your Texas driver license or DPS personal ID number. Read from: votetexas.gov/voting-by-mail/track-my-ballot.html
- Correcting a defect in a mail ballot application or carrier envelopeIf your Application for Ballot by Mail or your carrier envelope was rejected because the ID number was missing or did not match your voter registration record, you may correct the defect online through the Ballot by Mail Tracker. For other carrier-envelope defects — no signature, a signature mismatch, a missing Statement of Residence or incomplete witness information — complete the Corrective Action Form enclosed with the notice of defect and mail it back to the early voting clerk, or complete it in person at the clerk's office. You have until the 6th day after Election Day to correct the defect so that the ballot is counted. You may instead cancel the ballot by mail at an early voting or Election Day polling place and vote in person; without the mail ballot to surrender, the only option is a provisional ballot. Read from: votetexas.gov/voting-by-mail/corrective-action.html
Read from: Welcome to Texas Elections · Important Election Dates · November 3, 2026 Election Law Calendar · Current Elections Information List · Ballot Certification Report 2026 NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION November 03, 2026 · SAMPLE BALLOT (BOLETA DE MUESTRA) — Rules and dates as of Sep 17, 2026
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