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Angus King
Angus Stanley King Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who has served since 2013 as the junior United States senator from Maine. A political independent who caucuses with the Democratic Party, he served from 1995 to 2003 as the 72nd governor of Maine.
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business · American lawyer and politician (born 1944) · politician · lawyer · businessperson · television presenter · co-producer · business executive · entrepreneur · also Angus King, Angus Stanley King, Jr., Angus King, Jr., Angus S. King, Jr., Senator Angus King, Sen. Angus King
Born 31 March 1944 · Q544464
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2026· 13 entries
“never been so mad about a phone call in my entire life,”
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Published video “Morning Joe Interview 7.14.26”.
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Public attention spiked: 4,273 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.8× the usual 740, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Personal life
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Published video “MAINE VETERANS VOICES LEO DEON 051926”.
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Published video “CNN News Central 4.30.26”.
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Published video “Morning Joe Interview 3.2.26”.
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Published video “Senator King Reflects on War Powers Vote 3.4.26”.
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Published video “Senator King Floor Speech 3.11.26”.
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Yahoo: Sen. Angus King says he won't vote for package with ICE funding
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Published video “Senator King on CNN (The Situation Room) 1.14.26”.
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2025· 6 entries
Published video “King Highlights Biddeford Resident, Former Air Force Bomber Pilot”.
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Published video “Civics in 60 with Angus King: National Defense Authorization Act”.
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Published video “Civics in 60 with Angus King: Bill of Rights”.
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Yahoo: Why Sen. Angus King Broke With Democrats on Ending the Shutdown
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WABI-TV: Sen. Angus King joins Democratic Caucus members breaking party lines in test vote to end government shutdown
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WABI-TV: Angus King III announces candidacy for governor of Maine
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2024· 13 entries
Published video “My time in Skowhegan”.
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Published video “Heather Cox Richardson: Angus does the work 💪”.
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Published video “To address our housing crisis, increase supply”.
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Published video “How we solve our rural housing crisis 🏡”.
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Published video “Let's get money in the pockets of Maine families 🏠”.
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Published video “Why IVF is a blessing ✨”.
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Published video “A Humble and Heartfelt “Thank You””.
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King was reelected to a third term, defeating Republican Demi Kouzounas, Democrat David Costello, and independent Jason Cherry with 52% of the vote
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Published video “Mattie Daughtry: Angus fights so Maine’s working people can thrive”.
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Published video “We the People”.
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Published video “Gary Crocker: That Angus King is the real deal”.
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Due to Israel's conduct in the war, and in December 2024 joined 18 other senators mostly from the Democratic Party's progressive wing in voting to block arms sales to Israel due to the number of Palestinian civilians kil
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King received the 24th Bruce F
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2023· 3 entries
News Center Maine rated the claim “Senator Angus King has never had a bill passed into law.” False.
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The Lugar Center ranked King in the top fifth of senators for bipartisanship
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Career landmark: United States senator (2023).
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2022· 2 entries
King voted for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, a gun reform bill introduced following a deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas
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To promote domestic manufacturing and speak out against Chinese unfair trade practices
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2021· 3 entries
King and Senators Roger Wicker and John Hickenlooper tested positive for COVID-19
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King voted against Bernie Sanders's amendment to include a $15/hour minimum wage in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
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Career landmark: United States senator (2021–2023).
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2020· 1 entry
The Trump administration invited King to join a bipartisan task force on the reopening of the economy amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
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2019· 4 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (2019–2021).
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“The current alternatives, if this agreement is rejected, are either unrealistic or downright dangerous.”
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“s potentially limited options after steps taken by National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. King also questioned the difference in U.S. relations with Iran that year as opposed to any other in the country”
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“interested in providing additional resources to the federal agencies that process asylum claims, so we can reduce the existing backlog and adjudicate new claims in a more timely fashion.”
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2018· 7 entries
King was reelected, defeating Republican State Senator Eric Brakey and Democrat Zak Ringelstein with 54% of the vote
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Claimed: “"China, my understanding is, supplies 4 percent of the steel in the U.S."” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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According to OpenSecrets.org, King's net worth was more than $9.4 million as of 2018.
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Voted with all Republicans except Rand Paul and six Democrats to confirm Alex Azar, Trump's nominee for Health Secretary
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King introduced legislation to halt separations of immigrant families at the border
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King was a cosponsor of the NICS Denial Notification Act, legislation developed in the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that would require federal authorities to inform states within a day after a p
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Following the state's inaugural instant-runoff voting elections, and won a third term in 2024
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2017· 3 entries
King and Senator Jim Risch introduced the Securing Energy Infrastructure Act
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Career landmark: United States senator (2017–2019).
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King opposed the Republican tax bill, criticizing its passage on a party-line vote without hearings, saying: "The Bangor City Council would not amend the leash law using this process
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2016· 2 entries
Where he witnessed melting ice sheets firsthand and said that the impacts of climate change were "amazing and scary"
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Saying that the administration had made commitments that convinced him that "the benefits of the designation will far outweigh any detriment"; that the monument would not hurt Maine's pulp and paper industry; and that th
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2015· 4 entries
As part of the Obama administration's fiscal year 2016 budget, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs proposed congressional authorization for $6
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King supported the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, an international agreement with Iran
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King introduced legislation to lift the embargo
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Career landmark: United States senator (2015–2017).
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2014· 4 entries
King said he was keeping an open mind about the idea
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King was chosen for the annual tradition of reading George Washington's Farewell Address to the Senate
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King endorsed his Republican colleague from Maine, Susan Collins
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Calling such practices necessary to prevent interaction between bears and people, and saying the practices are based on science and the views of experts
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2013· 3 entries
King voted in favor of the so-called nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster for most presidential nominees
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Voted to restore funding for the ACA as part of an amendment to legislation that funded government operations for 45 days
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Career landmark: United States senator (2013–2015).
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2012· 3 entries
King won the Senate race with 53% of the vote, beating Democrat Cynthia Dill and Republican Charlie Summers and carrying all 16 of the state's counties
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King announced that he was running for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Olympia Snowe
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“People who say wind is only an intermittent resource are looking for a one-shot solution. And my experience is that there are rarely silver bullets, but there is often silver buckshot. Wind is an adjunct source of energy. Ten percent, 20% can be very significant”
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2010· 1 entry
But on October 29, 2014, he switched his endorsement to Democratic nominee Mike Michaud
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Bowdoin College (2007).
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King and Rob Gardiner, formerly of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, formed Independence Wind, a wind energy company
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2004· 1 entry
And an endowed lecturer at Bates in 2009, teaching courses in American politics and political leadership at both institutions
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2003· 2 entries
King returned to his business career
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King, his wife, Mary Herman, and their two children, who were 12 and 9 at the time, embarked on a road trip in a 40-foot (12m) motor home to see America
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2002· 2 entries
The state began the program with a four-year $37
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King launched the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) to provide laptops for every public middle-school student in the state, the first initiative of its kind in the nation
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1998· 1 entry
Which he easily won, garnering 59% of the vote and defeating Republican Jim Longley Jr
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1995· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of Maine (1995–2003).
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1989· 2 entries
King founded Northeast Energy Management, Inc
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Founded Northeast Energy Management, Inc
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1984· 5 entries
“If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.”
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“We could send down a combination of Pericles and Thomas Jefferson, and if that person's reporting to Harry Reid [Senate Majority Leader] or Mitch McConnell [Senate Minority Leader], he's going to be ineffective. … Every vote is a test vote. Every vote is party loyalty. We're sunk if it keeps up this way. … It wouldn't take but four or five centrists like me to completely change the dynamics.”
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“I don't have any illusions that I'm naively going to go down and Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell are going to say, "Angus, tell us how to do this." I mean, I know that's not going to work. But I think, No. 1, my election would send a significant message and, No. 2, it might provoke similar movements in other states. If there were four or five people like me, that would change the whole dynamic.”
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“Frankly, I think I might scare [the parties], and that would be a good thing.”
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“We proved that with civility, common sense, building bridges, working with coalitions and working with people one at a time, we could do something. … I can speak for the middle. … The real issue is the system itself.”
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1983· 1 entry
Was appointed vice president of Swift River/Hafslund Company, which developed alternative energy (hydroelectric and biomass) projects in New England
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1975· 1 entry
King returned to Maine to practice with Smith, Loyd and King in Brunswick
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1973· 1 entry
When he was 29, King was diagnosed with an aggressive form of melanoma
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1969· 1 entry
Studied at University of Virginia School of Law, Juris Doctor (1969).
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1966· 1 entry
Studied at Dartmouth College, Bachelor of Arts (1966).
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-03-31.
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