Mark Matthiesen

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Mark Matthiesen by Gage Skidmore.jpg

| caption = Matthiesen at the 2024 Hazlitt Summit hosted by Young Americans for Liberty Foundation

| imagesize =

| name = Mark Matthiesen

| state_house = Missouri

| state = Missouri

| district = 107th

| term_start = January 2023

| term_end =

| preceded = Nick Schroer

| succeeded =

| state_house1 = Missouri

| state1 = Missouri

| district1 = 70th

| term_start1 = January 2017

| term_end1 = January 2019

| preceded1 = Bill Otto

| succeeded1 = Paula Brown

| party = Republican

| birth_date =

| birth_place = Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.

| alma_mater = Missouri State University

| residence = O'Fallon, Missouri, U.S.

| children = 1

}}

Mark Matthiesen is an American politician from the state of Missouri. A Republican, he was elected in November 2016 from the 70th district of the Missouri House of Representatives, served from January 2017 to January 2019, then was elected in November 2022 from the 107th district.

Early life and career

Matthiesen was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He graduated from Washington High School in Washington, Missouri, in 1994. Additional education resulted in an associate degree in accounting from Florida State College at Jacksonville in 1999 and a bachelor's degree in hospitality management from Missouri State University in 2005. He is a licensed real estate agent, and in response to a 2022 candidate survey said he had worked in the hospitality industry for 20 years.

Missouri House of Representatives

The 70th district that Matthiesen represented from 2017 included parts of Saint Charles and Saint Louis counties, spanning between Chesterfield and Florissant. In 2018, Matthiesen lost re-election to Democratic candidate Paula Brown by less than a one percent margin and only 111 votes, with nearly 200 votes going to a third-party candidate. In 2022, he was elected from another St. Charles county district that includes much of the city of O'Fallon.{{cite web |url=https://house.mo.gov/MemberDetails.aspx?year=2018&code=R&district=70 |title=Representative Mark Matthiesen |access-date=June 10, 2018 |publisher=Missouri House of Representatives }}{{cite web |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_Matthiesen |title=Mark Matthiesen |publisher=Ballotpedia |access-date=June 10, 2018 }} He was unopposed in the 2024 Republican primary.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/elections/results/2024-08-06/missouri/state-house |title=2024 Missouri State House Primary Election Results |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=August 18, 2024}}

Election results

{{Election box begin|title=2022 Missouri House of Representatives — District 107{{cite web|title=Election Results; Official Election Returns|date=December 9, 2022|url= https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/ElectionResultsStatistics/2022GeneralElection.pdf|publisher=Missouri Secretary of State|accessdate=January 5, 2023}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Mark Matthiesen

|votes = 8,151

|percentage = 59.94%

|change = +10.89

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Tracy Grundy

|votes = 5,447

|percentage = 40.06%

|change = -9.68

}}

{{Election box begin|title=2018 Missouri House of Representatives — District 70 — parts of St. Charles and St. Louis Counties{{cite web |url=https://enr.sos.mo.gov/ |title=State of Missouri – General Election, November 06, 2018 |date=November 30, 2018 |access-date=December 1, 2018 |publisher=Missouri Secretary of State }}}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Paula Brown

|votes = 7,993

|percentage = 49.74%

|change = +2.65

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Mark Matthiesen

|votes = 7,882

|percentage = 49.05%

|change = −3.86

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Green Party (United States)

|candidate = Carol Hexem

|votes = 195

|percentage = 1.21%

|change =

}}

{{Election box begin|title=2016 Missouri House of Representatives — District 70 — parts of St. Charles and St. Louis Counties{{cite web |url=http://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/default.aspx?eid=750003949 |title=State of Missouri – General Election, November 08, 2016 |date=December 12, 2016 |access-date=June 16, 2018 |publisher=Missouri Secretary of State }}}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Republican Party (United States)

|candidate = Mark Matthiesen

|votes = 9,491

|percentage = 52.91%

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Democratic Party (United States)

|candidate = Byron DeLear

|votes = 8,447

|percentage = 47.09%