Angus S. King, Jr. is serving his second four-year term as Maine's 71st Governor. Victorious in his first bid for public office in 1994, King was reelected in 1998 by one of the largest margins of victory in Maine's history. He is one of the only two independent governors in the country.

Born on March 31st, 1944, the Governor graduated from Dartmouth College in 1966 and the University of Virginia Law School in 1969. He began his career in 1969 as a staff attorney for Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Skowhegan. In 1972 he became Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics in the office of then-Senator William D. Hathaway. In 1975 he returned to Maine to practice law with the firm of Smith, Loyd and King in Brunswick. In the same year he began his almost 20 year-stint as host of the television show "Maine Watch" on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network. In 1983 he became vice-president and general counsel of Swift River/Hafslund Company, an alternative energy development company based in Portland and Boston. Governor King founded and served as President of Northeast Energy Management, Inc. in 1989, a position he held for 5 years. The Brunswick-based company specialized in the development of large scale energy conservation projects at commercial and industrial facilities in central and southern Maine.

Governor King is married to Mary J. Herman. He is the father of four sons: Angus III, Duncan, James, and Benjamin, and a daughter, Molly.