Mark Allen Alford (born October 4, 1963) is an American politician and former television news journalist. After working at Kansas City television station WDAF-TV for 23 years, he stepped down from his anchor role to run for the United States House of Representatives in Missouri's 4th congressional district as a Republican in the 2022 elections.

Born in Baytown, Texas,^[1][2] Alford worked for KPRC-TV in Houston as a reporter and weekend anchor for News 2 Houston from 1995 and 1998. Prior to KPRC-TV, Alford was anchor for KDFW-TV in Dallas and a reporter with WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach; KWTX-TV in Waco and for KXAN-TV in Austin.^[3] In 1998, he went to WDAF-TV in Kansas City as an anchor for Fox 4 News and stayed there for 23 years. He announced his resignation on October 8, 2021.^[4] He announced his campaign for the United States House of Representatives in Missouri's 4th congressional district as a Republican in the 2022 elections on October 27.^[5][6] He won the Republican nomination in the primary election on August 2^[7] and the general election on November 8.^[8]