Mark J. Leyva (R)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Indiana (1)
- Birth Date: Oct. 1, 1959
- Web site: http://markleyva.com/
- E-mail address: info@markleyva.com
Mark Leyva was born in 1959 in East Chicago and grew up as one of six children in his family. He first ran for Congress in 2002, losing to longtime Democratic Rep. Peter Visclosky. Leyva, a former steelworker, also ran against Visclosky in 2004 and 2006 but has never received more than a third of the vote.
Leyva is a union carpenter from Highland running as a Republican in a northwest Indiana congressional district considered a Democratic stronghold.
Leyva's campaign Web site bills him as a "self-taught expert on politics, government and the economy."
Leyva enjoys golf, racquetball and biking and is an usher at his Catholic church in Highland.
He has one son, Mark Jr., who is in the U.S. Army.
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