Gregory Taft II (March 4, 1979) is an American Politician, Veteran and member of the Taft family who is serving as Governor of Maine since 2019. He is the second of the Maine branch of the Taft family behind his father Gregory Taft I.
Born to Gregory Taft I and Dorothy Taft in Bath, Maine. Greg Jr lived a privileged life and attended the University of Pennsylvanian on a Soccer scholarship in 1999 and in 2000 his team won the All American Education Cup with Greg’s 6 goals. He graduated with a history bachelor’s degree and enlisted in the National guard where he got 3 low ranking military recognitions and retired as Private First Class in 2005. That year he married Kathrine Li, an elementary school teacher and in 2007 the couple had twins, Gregory III and Allan Kim Taft.
In 2008 he ran for Mayor of Bangor winning the Republican nomination and going onto fight Henry Hamlin, Lawyer. Taft pulled the victory home with 54% of the votes.