| Mark Thorpe Abraham | |||||||||||
| State Senate1: | Louisiana | ||||||||||
| District1: | 25th | ||||||||||
| Term Start1: | January 2020 | ||||||||||
| Preceded1: | Dan Morrish | ||||||||||
| State House2: | Louisiana | ||||||||||
| District2: | 36th | ||||||||||
| Term Start2: | January 2016 | ||||||||||
| Term End2: | January 2020 | ||||||||||
| Preceded2: | Chuck Kleckley | ||||||||||
| Succeeded2: | Phillip Tarver | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 11 November 1953 | ||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Louisiana State University | ||||||||||
| Occupation: | Real estate broker businessman | ||||||||||
| Residence: | Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Spouse: | Gina Abraham | ||||||||||
| Children: | 3 | ||||||||||
| Party: | Republican | ||||||||||
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Mark Thorpe Abraham (born November 13, 1953)[1] 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.[2]
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).[3]
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.