Treasurer's Biography

Henry Beck

In 2018, Henry Beck was elected by a Joint Convention of the House and Senate as State Treasurer. In 2008, he was elected to the Maine House of Representatives representing parts of Waterville and Oakland during his senior year at Colby College. In the Legislature, he was appointed House Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and Financial Services, and served on the 2011 Commission to Apportion Maine's Congressional Districts.

 Treasurer Beck is a graduate of the University of Maine School of Law and holds an MBA from the Leonard Stern School of Business at New York University. Beck worked as an attorney at McKee Law before returning to public service as Treasurer.

Treasurer Beck's family came to central Maine nearly one hundred years ago and started a roofing company that is still operating. He is not the first Treasurer with Waterville roots, serving after Treasurers Sam Shapiro, David G. Lemoine, and Bruce L. Poliquin. Treasurer Beck is a George J. Mitchell Scholar.