Henry E. Murphy Beck (born June 6, 1986) is an
American
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lawyer and
Democratic
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Politics
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politician from
Waterville,
Maine. He has served as
Maine State Treasurer since 2019.
Biography
Beck graduated from
Waterville High School Waterville may refer to:
Places Canada
* Waterville, Quebec
* Waterville, Nova Scotia
* Waterville, Carleton County, New Brunswick, a rural community
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and from
Colby College. He served on the Waterville City Council.
Maine House of Representatives
Beck served in the
Maine House of Representatives
The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via p ...
representing District 110 from December 2008 until December 2016. In 2011 he was appointed to serve on the Commission to Apportion Maine's Congressional Districts. He served as the Chair of Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and Financial Services.
Maine State Senate campaign
He was term-limited in 2016, running instead for the
Maine State Senate. He lost to the incumbent,
Republican Scott Cyrway
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. He was succeeded in the House by fellow Democrat
Colleen Madigan, whom Cyrway had unseated from the Senate two years before.
State Treasurer
A former Democratic lawmaker, Beck was elected
Maine State Treasurer on December 6, 2018, after the Democrats reclaimed both houses of the
Maine Legislature. He defeated incumbent Treasurer
Terry Hayes, an independent backed by the Republicans. He assumed office on January 2, 2019.
In 2023, Beck announced a possibility of an upgrade to Maine's credit rating, based on increased reserves and improved budgeting.
Other activities
During the
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
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, Beck endorsed former
South Bend,
Indiana mayor
Pete Buttigieg
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.
References
External links
Official website
1986 births
Colby College alumni
Living people
Maine city council members
Maine lawyers
Democratic Party members of the Maine House of Representatives
Politicians from Waterville, Maine
State treasurers of Maine
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