Angus King
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United States Senator from Maine |
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Assumed office January 3, 2013 Serving with Susan Collins |
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| Preceded by | Olympia Snowe |
| 72nd Governor of Maine | |
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In office January 5, 1995 – January 8, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | John McKernan |
| Succeeded by | John Baldacci |
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Angus Stanley King, Jr. March 31, 1944 Alexandria, Virginia, U.S. |
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Democratic (Before 1993) Independent (1993–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Herman (1984–present) |
| Children | 5 |
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Dartmouth College (BA) University of Virginia (LLB) |
| Website | Senate website |
Angus Stanley King, Jr. (born March 31, 1944) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator from the state of Maine. As a political independent, he served as the 72nd Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003, winning his first election in a 4-way race with 35.37% of the vote.
King won Maine's 2012 Senate election to replace the retiring Republican Olympia Snowe and took office on January 3, 2013. For committee assignment purposes, he caucuses with the Democratic Party.
King was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the son of Ellen Archer (née Ticer) and Angus Stanley King, Sr., a lawyer. He has spent most of his adult years in the state of Maine. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1966 and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1969. While a student at Dartmouth, King joined the Delta Upsilon social fraternity.
Soon after graduation from Virginia, King entered private law practice in Brunswick, Maine. He was a staff attorney for Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Skowhegan. In 1972, he served as chief counsel to U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics. King served as a legislative assistant to Democratic U.S. Senator William Hathaway in the 1970s. He was also well-known statewide as a television host on public television. In 1973, when he was 29, King was diagnosed with an aggressive form of malignant melanoma during a routine doctor's appointment—an appointment, King says, he never would have made had he not had health insurance at the time. As a result of the visit and the early detection, King was able to receive treatment, and the experience undergirds his support for the Affordable Care Act.
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