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).
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.