Mark Finchem (1956-) was a member of the Arizona House of Representatives (R-11) from 5 January 2015, succeeding Adam Kwasman.
Biography
Mark Finchem was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1956 and raised in Kalamazoo, and he worked as a firefighter and police officer in Kalamazoo until 1999. He also worked as a rancher in Delton, Michigan before moving to Tucson, Arizona to work in the business and software industry. He was elected to the State House in 2014 as a Republican, and he acquired a reputation as a far-right extremist and "one of the dumbest" state representative, as fellow Republican Paul Boyer called him. Finchem supported prohibiting Arizona from following federal executive orders, federal agency directives, and US Supreme Court rulings, supported the transfer of federal government lands to the state government, supported Cliven Bundy's standoffs with the federal government, supported the "Stop the Steal" movement after Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election, called for the state legislature to send its own Republican presidential electors to Washington DC, took part in the 2021 United States coup d'etat attempt, and was a member of the Oath Keepers. He ran for Secretary of State of Arizona in 2022.