In 2018, Henry Beck was elected by a Joint Convention of the House and Senate as State Treasurer. Treasurer Beck’s public service began when he was elected to represent his neighborhood on the Waterville City Council in 2005. 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 Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and Financial Services and to serve on the 2011 Commission to Apportion Maine’s Congressional Districts. Treasurer Beck attended the University of Maine School of Law and graduated on time while serving in the Legislature and practiced law prior to serving as Treasurer. He also holds an MBA from the Leonard Stern School of Business at New York University.

The Office of the Treasurer of State is established in Article V, Part Third of the Constitution of the State of Maine. The core duties of the Treasurer’s Office are debt management, cash management, trust fund administration and unclaimed property administration. Other major tasks assigned to the Treasurer are directorships on many of Maine’s quasi-governmental debt issuing agencies and distributions under the Municipal Revenue Sharing Program.

This meeting is hosted by the Winthrop Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce in the Winthrop Commerce Center Conference Room , 149 Main St., Winthrop, Maine. Doors open at 7:15, the session begins at 7:30. Light refreshments will be served.

Directions: Follow the signs for Maine General / Winthrop Family Medicine / Winthrop Pediatrics, and park in the lot behind the building. Using that entrance, go past the front desk, down the hall past the (not currently operating) Commerce Cafe, and the conference room is the next door on the right. If you use the entrance on Main Street, you will need to take the elevator or stairs down to the bottom level and follow the maze.
RSVP to rsvp@winthropchamber.org or (207) 377-8020