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  2. Spiro Agnew - Wikipedia

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    Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was an American politician who was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second vice president to resign the position, the other being John C. Calhoun in 1832.

  3. Spiro Agnew | Biography, Scandal, Facts, & Resignation

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    Spiro Agnew, in full Spiro Theodore Agnew, also called Spiro T. Agnew, (born November 9, 1918, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died September 17, 1996, Berlin, Maryland), 39th vice president of the United States (1969–73) in the Republican administration of President Richard M. Nixon.

  4. Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States. He served under President Richard Nixon. He was also the 55th governor of the state of Maryland and the first Greek American governor and vice president in United States history.

  5. Biography of Spiro Agnew, Vice President Who Resigned - ThoughtCo

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    Spiro Theodore Agnew (also known as Ted) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on Nov. 9, 1918. His father, Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, had immigrated to the U.S. from Greece in 1897 and changed his surname. The elder Agnew sold produce before entering the restaurant business. His mother was American, a native of Virginia.

  6. Spiro Agnew - New World Encyclopedia

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    Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under President Richard M. Nixon, and the fifty-fifth Governor of Maryland. He is most famous for his resignation in 1973, after he was charged with the crime of tax evasion.

  7. Vice President Agnew's Resignation: How Gerald Ford Became...

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    Spiro Agnew served as vice president under President Richard M. Nixon. Prior to becoming vice president, he served in other elected positions, becoming governor of Maryland in 1967. During his terms in other offices, suspicion grew that Agnew committed illegal acts that included bribery, income tax evasion, and other accusations.

  8. Rachel Maddow On Spiro Agnew's Bribery Scandal : Fresh Air

    www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945085007/rachel-maddow-on-spiro-agnews-bribery-scandal

    Richard Nixon's first vice president, Spiro Agnew, resigned in 1973 amidst charges of bribery and tax evasion. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and producer Mike Yarvitz investigated the Agnew scandal in...

  9. Spiro Agnew Biography - parents, death, wife, school, son,...

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    Spiro Theodore Agnew was born November 9, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Theodore S. Agnew and his Virginia-born wife, Margaret Pollard Akers. Spiro Agnew was, in his own words, a "typical middle class youth" who spoke and wrote very well and gained experience writing speeches for his father's many appearances before ethnic and ...

  10. Peter Jensen: Recalling Spiro Agnew in the Trump era — and when...

    www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-jensen-0329-spiro-agnew-20230328...

    Spiro T. Agnew resigns from office on Oct. 10, 1973 in Baltimore becoming the first U.S. vice president to resign in disgrace. Would the former Maryland governor have accepted his fate in today's ...

  11. He was Trump before Trump: VP Spiro Agnew attacked the news media...

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    When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day. He was Trump before Trump: VP Spiro Agnew ...