He attended Cameron University, where he studied agricultural education and animal science.

[1] Armes has represented his district as a conservative lawmaker with a focus on issues that affect rural Oklahomans, and received a rating of 100% from the Oklahoma Farm Bureau.

[3] Armes has consistently voted against embryonic stem cell research, for tax relief and government modernization.

In 2014, his last year in office, Armes was embroiled in a controversy involving efforts to sabotage the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality.

[4] It was also widely alleged that Armes conspired with insiders at the Department of Environmental Quality, and that he engaged in romantic relationships with one of those Department of Environmental Quality employees.