Herschel Walker (3 March 1962-) was an American football player and conservative political activist. Born in Augusta, Georgia, he won the 1982 Heisman Trophy while playing for the Georgia Bulldogs, and he later went professional from 1983 to 1997. Walker was an active Republican who supported Jack Kingston's 2014 US Senate bid, Brian Kemp's 2018 gubernatorial bid, and Donald Trump's 2020 presidential re-election bid, speaking at the Republican National Convention on 24 August 2020. He was also considered a potential candidate in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election before running for the US Senate, challenging Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock. Walker was a controversial candidate due to his volatile and abusive family life, his payment for an abortion for one of his many lovers (in spite of his staunchly pro-life stances during his senatorial campaign), and his fathering of four children with four different women (while saying that fatherless households were a "major, major problem" in Black households). He lost the 6 December 2022 runoff election by a margin of 48.6% to Warnock's 51.4%.