Jonathan Nez

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Jonathan Michael Nez (born May 26, 1975) is a Navajo politician who served as the ninth president of the Navajo Nation from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as vice president and as a delegate to the Navajo Nation Council. Nez represented the Tsah Bii' Kin, Navajo Mountain, Shonto, and Oljato chapters as a council delegate before being elected vice president in 2015 on a ticket with Russell Begaye. He served in that office until 2019, when he succeeded Begaye as president. In 2024, he won the uncontested Democratic nomination to represent Arizona's 2nd congressional district, becoming the first Indigenous candidate in Arizona to win a major-party nomination for a congressional seat. He lost in the general election to incumbent Republican Eli Crane and is again the Democratic nominee challenging Crane in 2026.

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