Mark Charles Teixeira
American baseball player and politician (born 1980)
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, TX-21 · General · Republican · on the ballot
- 2026 · State House / Assembly, TX District U_S_21 · Primary · Republican · won · 58,180 votes (60.9%) · source
Background
Mark Charles Teixeira, nicknamed "Tex", is an American politician and former professional baseball first baseman who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and New York Yankees.
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Before his professional career, he played college baseball at Georgia Tech, where in 2000 he won the Dick Howser Trophy as the national collegiate baseball player of the year.
Campaign finance
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Portrait — Keith Allison · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons (file page)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-22 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Teixeira
- Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q928196
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6TX21301/
- photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MarkTeixeiraSwing.jpg
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