Mark Wayne "Markwayne" Mullin was born on July 26,1977 and is an American businessman and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma since 2023.
22 Facts About Markwayne Mullin
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Markwayne Mullin is the second Cherokee Nation citizen elected to the Senate; the first, Robert Latham Owen, retired in 1925.
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Markwayne Mullin was born on July 26,1977, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the youngest of the seven children of Jim Martin and Brenda Gayle Morris Markwayne Mullin, of Westville, Oklahoma.
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Markwayne Mullin graduated from Stilwell High School in Stilwell, Oklahoma.
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Markwayne Mullin attended Missouri Valley College in 1996, but did not graduate.
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In 1997, at age 20, Markwayne Mullin took over his father's business, Markwayne Mullin Plumbing, when his father fell ill.
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In 2010, Markwayne Mullin received an associate degree in construction technology from Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology.
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At the time he was first elected to Congress in 2012, Markwayne Mullin hosted House Talk, a home improvement radio program syndicated across Oklahoma, on Tulsa station KFAQ.
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Markwayne Mullin said that the sale happened in early 2021, shortly after Jim Inhofe was reelected to the US Senate in 2020.
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In September 2011, Markwayne Mullin declared his candidacy for the 2012 elections to the United States House of Representatives to represent Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district.
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Markwayne Mullin was the first Republican to represent the district since Tom Coburn in 2001.
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When he first ran for Congress in 2012, Markwayne Mullin promised to serve only three terms, but in July 2017 he released a video announcing that he would run for a fourth term in 2018, saying he was ill-advised when he made the promise to only serve three terms.
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Markwayne Mullin announced that he would run in the special election.
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Markwayne Mullin wants to extend federal boxing regulations to the practices of mixed martial arts businesses like Ultimate Fighting Champion.
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Markwayne Mullin's 2016 proposed legislation would have forced the UFC to share financial information with fighters and create an independent ranking system.
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In December 2020, Mullin was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump.
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When campaigning for the 2022 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin supported the claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
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Between November 2006 and April 2007, Markwayne Mullin fought in three mixed martial arts fights, winning all three.
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Markwayne Mullin's total fight time was less than 10 minutes, and he fought a total of less than three full rounds.
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Markwayne Mullin is one of five Native Americans who served in the 117th Congress.
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Markwayne Mullin is the first Native American senator elected to Congress in nearly two decades, and the second Cherokee Nation citizen elected to the Senate, alongside Robert Latham Owen, who was a senator for Oklahoma from 1907 to 1925.
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In 2021, Markwayne Mullin reported that his personal assets were between $31.6 million and $75.6 million.