Rick Crawford

Rick Crawford enjoys cooking, old westerns and playing guitar and singing with his band, Triple Nickel.¹ He and his wife, Stacy, have two children and live in Jonesboro.¹ Born at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, he grew up in a military family before choosing the Army for his own service.²¹

He served from 1985 to 1989 as an explosive ordnance disposal technician.²¹ Afterward, he earned an agriculture business and economics degree at Arkansas State University in 1996.¹ He built a career in agricultural communications and founded AgWatch Network, which supplied programming to more than 50 radio station affiliates across five states.¹

Crawford won his first congressional election in 2010 and began serving in January 2011.² He chairs the House Intelligence Committee in the current Congress.² His district agenda includes infrastructure investment and expanding domestic fertilizer production to help farmers manage supply costs.³

He supports tariffs as leverage in trade negotiations and points to steel tariffs as an example he believes helped local industry.³ He also backed the House's 2026 farm bill, while negotiations over a final version continued.³ He faces Democrat Terri Yarbrough Green and Libertarian Steve Parsons, whose platforms offer different approaches to trade, healthcare and federal spending.³