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He then attended the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in 1969.Soon after graduating from law school, King entered private law practice in Brunswick, Maine. While a student at Dartmouth, King joined the Delta Upsilon social fraternity. He attended Dartmouth College, earning his B.A.
Senator William Hathaway in the 1970s. King served as a legislative assistant to Democratic U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics.
In 1983 he was appointed vice president of Swift River/Hafslund Company, which developed alternative energy (hydroelectric and biomass) projects in New England.In 1989, King founded Northeast Energy Management, Inc., a company that developed and operated electrical energy conservation projects. In 1975, King returned to Maine to practice with Smith, Loyd and King in Brunswick. King has said he believes he survived cancer only because he had health insurance, and has highlighted this experience when explaining his support for the Affordable Care Act. In 1973, when he was 29, King was diagnosed with an aggressive form of malignant melanoma.
King abandoned his lifelong affiliation with the Maine Democratic Party. Incumbent Governor John McKernan, a Republican, was term-limited and could not seek another term. Governor of Maine 1994 election Main article: 1994 Maine gubernatorial electionIn May 1993, King announced he would run for governor of Maine as an independent. As of 2012 King's investments were valued at between $4.8 million and $22.5 million.
He positioned himself as a businessman and a pragmatic environmentalist focused on job creation and education. King invested early in television advertising during Maine's unusually early June primary, allowing him to emerge from the primary season on an equal footing with his rivals. It was Brennan's fifth campaign for governor.The general election was a highly competitive four-way race between King, Collins, Brennan, and Green Party nominee Jonathan Carter. The Democratic nominee was former Governor and U.S. Senator William Cohen, and at the time relatively unknown to the electorate. The Republican nominee was Susan Collins, Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation under Governor John McKernan and a protégée of U.S.
He was also one of only two governors nationwide not affiliated with either of the two major parties, the other being Jesse Ventura of Minnesota, who was elected in 1998 as a member of the Reform Party. Longley had been elected 20 years earlier.King meets with a Russian delegation as Maine governor in October 2002.During his tenure, King was the only governor in the United States unaffiliated with any political party. King's election as an independent was not unprecedented in Maine politics, as independent James B. King won eight counties, Collins five and Brennan three.
To equip all 7th- and 8th-grade students and teachers in the state with laptops. On September 5, 2002, the state began the program with a four-year $37.2-million contract with Apple Inc. It met with considerable resistance due to its cost but was enacted by the Maine Legislature. In 2002 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. In his book Independent Nation (2004), political analyst John Avlon describes all three governors as radical centrist thinkers.
Ten percent, 20% can be very significant". Wind is an adjunct source of energy. And my experience is that there are rarely silver bullets, but there is often silver buckshot. Of the project, King has said, "People who say wind is only an intermittent resource are looking for a one-shot solution. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, King sold his share of the company after entering the 2012 U.S.
The following week, King announced that he would caucus with Senate Democrats, explaining not only that it made more sense to affiliate with the party that had a clear majority, but that he would have been largely excluded from the committee process had he not caucused with a party. On November 6, 2012, King won the Senate race with 53% of the vote, beating Democrat Cynthia Dill and Republican Charlie Summers. King's Senate campaign came under scrutiny for posting a heavily edited newspaper profile of him on its website. Chellie Pingree out of the race. King said "hogwash" to allegations by some Republicans that he had cut a deal with Democrats to keep U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Olympia Snowe.
King also endorsed Eliot Cutler for governor in the 2014 election, as he had in 2010, but on October 29, 2014, he switched his endorsement to Democratic nominee Mike Michaud. At the same time, he endorsed Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire for reelection. Senate election, calling her a "model Senator". Tenure 113th Congress (2013–2015)Martin Dempsey ( right), speaks with King ( left) at Senate Armed Services Committee meeting in 2014.King endorsed his colleague Susan Collins for reelection in the 2014 U.S. King remained in the Democratic caucus after the 2016, 2018, and the 2020 elections, the first two of which also resulted in Republican Senate majorities and the last of which produced a 50-50 tie.On November 6, 2018, King was reelected, defeating Republican Eric Brakey and Democrat Zak Ringelstein.
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