{{Short description|American businessman and politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Mark Thorpe Abraham | image = | caption = | state_senate1 = Louisiana | district1 = 25th | term_start1 = January 2020 | term_end1 = | preceded1 = Dan Morrish | succeeded1 = | state_house2 = Louisiana | district2 = 36th | term_start2 = January 2016 | term_end2 = January 2020 | preceded2 = Chuck Kleckley | succeeded2 = Phillip Tarver | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|11|11}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | alma_mater = Louisiana State University | occupation = Real estate broker<br /> businessman | spouse = Gina Abraham | children = 3 | party = Republican | parents = | footnotes = | module = {{Infobox college football player | embed=yes | name = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | college = LSU Tigers | currentnumber = | currentposition = Safety | class = | pastschools = | bowlgames = | highschool = | height_ft = | height_in = | weight_lb = }} }}
'''Mark Thorpe Abraham''' (born November 13, 1953)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=91249|title=Mark Abraham, November 1953|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=October 26, 2015|archive-date=December 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212042202/https://voterportal.sos.la.gov/Home/Home?uid=91249|url-status=dead}}</ref> is a businessman and politician from Lake Charles. Since 2020, he has represented the 25th district in the Louisiana State Senate; he was previously a state representative for the 36th district from 2016 to 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regents.la.gov/page/mark-t-abraham-from-lake-charles|title=Mark T. Abraham from Lake Chsarles|publisher=regents.la.gov|accessdate=October 26, 2015|archive-date=March 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301211448/http://regents.la.gov/page/mark-t-abraham-from-lake-charles|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Career== In the October 24, 2015 primary election, Abraham, with 5,607 votes (54.6 percent), defeated another Republican candidate, Keith DeSonier, who polled 4,654 votes (45.4 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10242015/10242015_Legislative.html|title=Results for Election Date: 10/24/2015|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=October 26, 2015}}</ref>
He is a former Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 36 in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana. On January 11, 2016, he succeeded the term-limited Republican Representative Chuck Kleckley, also the former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
In 2019, Abraham won election to the 25th district in the State Senate, succeeding term-limited incumbent Republican Dan Morrish.
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