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American politician (born 1980)

Eli Crane


Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona's 2nd district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2023
Preceded by	Tom O'Halleran

Personal details
Born	Elijah Crane (1980-01-03) January 3, 1980 (age 45) Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Jen Crane
Children	2
Signature
Website	House website
Military service
Branch/service	United States Navy
Years of service	2001–2014
Unit	U.S. Navy SEALs SEAL Team 3
Battles/wars	Iraq War

Elijah James Crane (born January 3, 1980) is an American politician and businessman elected as the U.S. representative from Arizona's 2nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, Crane defeated Democratic incumbent Tom O'Halleran.

Before entering politics, Crane served in the United States Navy and co-founded Bottle Breacher, which he sold in 2022.

Crane won reelection in 2024 against Democratic nominee Jonathan Nez, the former Navajo Nation President.

Early life and education

Crane was born in Tucson, Arizona, and raised in Yuma. His father worked as a pharmacist. Crane graduated from Cibola High School in 1998 and studied sociology at Arizona Western College and the University of Arizona.

Career

Crane stated that one week after the September 11 attacks, he dropped out of college and served in the United States Navy from 2001 to 2014. He was a member of the United States Navy SEALs and was deployed five times. Three of the five deployments were with the SEALS.

After leaving the military, Crane co-founded Bottle Breacher, a company that manufactures bottle openers made of .50 caliber cartridge casings. He and his wife pitched the product on an episode of Shark Tank and received investments from Kevin O'Leary and Mark Cuban. Crane sold Bottle Breacher in 2022.

U.S. House of Representatives

2022 election

Main article: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Arizona § District 2

In 2022, Crane won the Republican nomination for Arizona's 2nd congressional district. The district had previously been the 1st, represented by three-term Democrat Tom O'Halleran. Crane was endorsed by Donald Trump, and additionally accepted the endorsement of Republican state senator Wendy Rogers before the date of the primary election. Crane won the August Republican primary, defeating state representative Walter Blackman and others. Crane promoted the false conspiracy theory that there were "massive amounts of fraud" in the 2020 United States presidential election. Crane called upon the Arizona State Legislature to decertify Joe Biden's victory in the state, and for the attorney general of Arizona to launch a criminal investigation into alleged voter fraud. In the general election, Crane unseated O'Halleran by a 54% to 46% margin.

Tenure

Crane did not support Kevin McCarthy for House speaker, and was one of six Republicans to vote against him on every ballot in the initial speaker election in 2023. In the 15th and final round of voting, Crane dropped his support for a different candidate and voted "present". He would later be one of eight Republicans to support the removal of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.

Syria

In 2023, Crane was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.

Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

Crane was among the 71 Republicans and 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.

Ukraine

In 2023, Crane voted to cut off all military aid to Ukraine.

In 2023, Crane was among 98 Republicans to vote for a ban on cluster munitions to Ukraine.

Israel

Crane voted to provide Israel with support following the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

Conspiracy theories on the Trump assassination attempts

On multiple occasions, Crane has promoted conspiracy theories about both the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania in July 2024 and the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Florida in September 2024. For the first attempted assassination, Crane has promoted the conspiracy theory that the gunman did not act alone, and for the second attempted assassination, Crane has promoted the conspiracy theory that the gunman was an "asset" of a foreign adversary.

Committee assignments

For the 118th Congress:

Caucus memberships

Freedom Caucus

Personal life

Crane is Protestant. He lives in Oro Valley, Arizona. He is married to Jen Crane and has two daughters.

He has served as a brand ambassador for Sig Sauer firearms.

Electoral history

2022

2022 Arizona's 2nd congressional district Republican primary
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Eli Crane	38,681	35.8
	Republican	Walter Blackman	26,399	24.4
	Republican	Mark DeLuzio	18,515	17.1
	Republican	Andy Yates	7,467	6.9
	Republican	John W. Moore	7,327	6.8
	Republican	Steve Krystofiak	5,905	5.5
	Republican	Ron Watkins	3,810	3.5
Total votes			108,104	100

2022 Arizona's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Eli Crane	174,169	53.9
	Democratic	Tom O'Halleran (incumbent)	149,151	46.1
	Independent (Write-in)	Chris Sarappo	76	0.0
Total votes			323,396	100
	Republican gain from Democratic

2024

2024 Arizona's 2nd congressional district Republican primary
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Eli Crane	56,354	79
	Republican	Jack Smith	15,013	21.0
Total votes			71,367	100

2024 Arizona's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Eli Crane (incumbent)	221,413	54.5%
	Democratic	Jonathan Nez	184,963	45.5%
	Write-in		55	0.01%
Total votes			406,431	100.00%

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External links

Representative Eli Crane official U.S. House website
Eli Crane for Congress campaign website
Appearances on C-SPAN

Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
Profile at Vote Smart

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byAnn Kirkpatrick	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona's 2nd congressional district 2023–present	Incumbent
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded byMike Collins	United States representatives by seniority 311th	Succeeded byJasmine Crockett

v t e Arizona's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators	▌Mark Kelly (D) ▌Ruben Gallego (D)
Representatives (ordered by district)	▌David Schweikert (R) ▌Eli Crane (R) ▌Yassamin Ansari (D) ▌Greg Stanton (D) ▌Andy Biggs (R) ▌Juan Ciscomani (R) ▌Raúl Grijalva (D) ▌Abraham Hamadeh (R) ▌Paul Gosar (R)

Members of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona

Territorial (1863–1912)

Seat	Poston Goodwin Bashford McCormick Stevens Campbell Oury Bean Smith Murphy Smith Wilson Smith Wilson Smith Cameron

One at-large seat (1912–1943)

Seat	Hayden Douglas Greenway Murdock

Two at-large seats (1943–1949)

Seat	Murdock
Seat	Harless

Districts (1949–present)
(3rd district established in 1963)
(4th district established in 1973)
(5th district established in 1983)
(6th district established in 1993)
(7th and 8th districts established in 2003)
(9th district established in 2013)

1st district	Murdock Rhodes Jr. McCain Rhodes III Coppersmith Salmon Flake Renzi Kirkpatrick Gosar Kirkpatrick O'Halleran Schweikert
2nd district	Patten S. Udall M. Udall Pastor Franks Barber McSally Kirkpatrick Crane
3rd district	Senner Steiger Stump Shadegg Quayle Grijalva Gallego Ansari
4th district	Conlan Rudd Kyl Shadegg Pastor Gosar Stanton
5th district	McNulty Kolbe Hayworth Mitchell Schweikert Salmon Biggs
6th district	English Hayworth Flake Schweikert Ciscomani
7th district	Grijalva Pastor Gallego Grijalva
8th district	Kolbe Giffords Barber Franks Lesko Hamadeh
9th district	Sinema Stanton Gosar

Current members of the United States House of Representatives

Speaker: Mike Johnson

Majority

v t e Republican Party conference
Speaker: Mike Johnson ‧ Majority Leader: Steve Scalise ‧ Majority Whip: Tom Emmer
Other members: Aderholt Alford Allen Amodei Arrington Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Barr Barrett Baumgartner Bean Begich Bentz Bergman Bice A. Biggs S. Biggs Bilirakis Boebert Bost Brecheen Bresnahan Buchanan Burchett Burlison Calvert Cammack Carey B. Carter J. Carter Ciscomani Cline Cloud Clyde Cole Collins Comer Crane Crank Crawford Crenshaw Davidson De La Cruz DesJarlais Díaz-Balart Donalds Downing Dunn Edwards Ellzey Estes Evans Ezell Fallon Fedorchak Feenstra Finstad Fischbach Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Flood Fong Foxx Franklin Fry Fulcher Garbarino Gill Giménez C. Goldman Gonzales Gooden Gosar Graves Green Greene Griffith Grothman Guest Guthrie Hageman Hamadeh Haridopolos Harrigan A. Harris M. Harris Harshbarger Hern Higgins Hill Hinson Houchin Hudson Huizenga Hunt Hurd Issa Jack R. Jackson James D. Johnson Jordan D. Joyce J. Joyce Kean M. Kelly T. Kelly M. Kennedy Kiggans Kiley Kim Knott Kustoff LaHood LaLota LaMalfa Langworthy Latta Lawler Lee Letlow Loudermilk Lucas Luna Luttrell Mace Mackenzie Malliotakis Maloy Mann Massie Mast McCaul McClain McClintock McCormick McDowell McGuire Messmer Meuser C. Miller Mary Miller Max Miller Miller-Meeks Mills Moolenaar Ba. Moore Bl. Moore R. Moore T. Moore Moran Murphy Nehls Newhouse Norman Nunn Obernolte Ogles Onder Owens Palmer Perry Pfluger Reschenthaler H. Rogers M. Rogers Rose Rouzer Roy Rulli Rutherford Salazar Schmidt Schweikert A. Scott Self Sessions Shreve Simpson A. Smith C. Smith J. Smith Smucker Spartz Stauber Stefanik Steil Steube Strong Stutzman Taylor Tenney Thompson Tiffany Timmons Turner Valadao Van Drew Van Duyne Van Orden Wagner Walberg Waltz Weber Webster Westerman Wied R. Williams Wilson Wittman Womack Yakym Zinke
Delegates: King-Hinds Moylan Radewagen

Minority

v t e Democratic Party caucus
Minority Leader: Hakeem Jeffries ‧ Minority Whip: Katherine Clark
Other members: Adams Aguilar Amo Ansari Auchincloss Balint Barragán Beatty Bell Bera Beyer Bishop Bonamici Boyle Brown Brownley Budzinski Bynum Carbajal Carson T. Carter Casar Case Casten Castor Castro Cherfilus-McCormick Chu Cisneros Clarke Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Conaway Connolly Correa Costa Courtney Craig Crockett Crow Cuellar Davids Da. Davis Do. Davis Dean DeGette DeLauro DelBene Deluzio DeSaulnier Dexter Dingell Doggett Elfreth Escobar Espaillat Evans Fields Figures Fletcher Foster Foushee Frankel Friedman Frost Garamendi C. García R. Garcia S. Garcia Gillen Golden D. Goldman Gomez Gonzalez Goodlander Gottheimer Green Gray Grijalva Harder Hayes Himes Horsford Houlahan Hoyer Hoyle Huffman Ivey J. Jackson Jacobs Jayapal H. Johnson J. Johnson Kamlager-Dove Kaptur Keating R. Kelly T. Kennedy Khanna Krishnamoorthi Landsman Larsen Larson Latimer Sum. Lee Sus. Lee Leger Fernandez Levin Liccardo Lieu Lofgren Lynch Magaziner Mannion Matsui McBath McBride McClain-Delaney McClellan McCollum McDonald Rivet McGarvey McGovern McIver Meeks Menendez Meng Mfume Min Moore Morelle Morrison Moskowitz Moulton Mrvan Mullin Nadler Neal Neguse Norcross Ocasio-Cortez Olszewski Omar Pallone Panetta Pappas Pelosi Perez Peters Pettersen Pingree Pocan Pou Pressley Quigley Ramirez Randall Raskin Riley Rivas Ross Ruiz Ryan Salinas Sánchez Scanlon Schakowsky Schneider Scholten Schrier B. Scott D. Scott Sewell Sherman Sherrill Simon Smith Sorensen Soto Stansbury Stanton Stevens Strickland Subramanyam Suozzi Swalwell Sykes Takano Thanedar B. Thompson M. Thompson Titus Tlaib Tokuda Tonko N. Torres R. Torres Trahan Tran Turner Underwood Vargas Vasquez Veasey Velázquez Vindman Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Coleman Whitesides Williams Wilson
Delegates: Holmes Norton Plaskett Rivera

Arizona's delegation(s) to the 118th–present United States Congresses (ordered by seniority)

118th	Senate: ▌K. Sinema (I) ▌M. Kelly (D)	House: ▌R. Grijalva (D) ▌P. Gosar (R) ▌D. Schweikert (R) ▌R. Gallego (D) ▌A. Biggs (R) ▌D. Lesko (R) ▌G. Stanton (D) ▌J. Ciscomani (R) ▌E. Crane (R)
119th	Senate: ▌M. Kelly (D) ▌R. Gallego (D)	House: ▌R. Grijalva (D) ▌P. Gosar (R) ▌D. Schweikert (R) ▌A. Biggs (R) ▌G. Stanton (D) ▌J. Ciscomani (R) ▌E. Crane (R) ▌Y. Ansari (D) ▌A. Hamadeh (R)

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