Former two-term governor of Maine, Angus S. King joined Bernstein Shur in January 2004 and primarily concentrates on providing strategic and legal advice to the firm’s business clients.

Born in Alexandria, Virginia, Angus began his career in 1969 as a staff attorney for Pine Tree Legal Assistance in Skowhegan, Maine and became Chief Counsel in 1973 to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics in the office of then-Senator William D. Hathaway.

Gov. King returned to private practice law in 1975 with the firm of Smith, Loyd and King in Brunswick, Maine. In the same year, he began his 18-year career as host and co-producer of public affairs programming on Maine Public Broadcasting Network. During this time he hosted a weekly McNeil-Lehrer type program, which featured public issue discussions, candidate debates, and special productions. In addition to local and state officials and private sector leaders, his guests during this period included Ed Muskie, George Mitchell, Malcolm Forbes, Margaret Chase Smith, William F. Buckley, David Broder, and others.

In 1983, Governor King became vice-president and general counsel of Swift River/Hafslund Company, an alternative energy development company based in Portland and Boston. In 1989, he founded and served as President of Northeast Energy Management, Inc., a developer of large-scale energy conservation projects at commercial and industrial facilities in central and southern Maine. He sold this business in 1994.

Gov. King was elected Maine's 71st Governor in 1994 and reelected in 1998 by one of the largest margins of victory in the state's history. He was one of only two independent governors in the country. During his term in office, the state’s corrections and mental health systems were substantially rebuilt, both in terms of program and infrastructure; major improvements were made in the state’s service capability—including on-line services; and the state dramatically increased its commitment to research and development. Significant reductions were made in a variety of state taxes. Additionally, as governor, he oversaw the largest increase of lands in conservation in the state’s history and started the nationally recognized program to provide laptop computers to every seventh and eighth grade student in the state—regardless of location or family income—with a goal of making Maine’s students the most computer literate in the world.

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