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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—USSpiro Theodore AGNEW
(1918-1996)
AGNEW, Spiro Theodore,
Vice President of the United States; born in Baltimore, Md.,
November 9, 1918; educated in the public schools of Baltimore;
attended the Johns Hopkins University; graduated from the
University of Baltimore Law School 1947; served in the United
States Army during the Second World War and the Korean conflict;
practiced law in Baltimore; elected county executive of Baltimore
County 1962; elected Governor of Maryland 1966; elected Vice
President of the United States on the Republican ticket with
President Richard M. Nixon on November 5, 1968; resigned as
Governor of Maryland on January 7, 1969; inaugurated 39th Vice
President of the United States on January 20, 1969; reelected Vice
President, November 7, 1972; charged with accepting bribes and
falsifying federal tax returns, pleaded nolo contendere to
the latter charge in federal court, and resigned October 10, 1973;
international trade executive; was a resident of Rancho Mirage,
Calif., and Ocean City, Md.; died September 17, 1996, in Ocean
City; cremated, ashes interred at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens,
Timonium, Md.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Agnew, Spiro T. Go Quietly
... or else. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980;
Witcover, Julian. Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy
Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. New York:
PublicAffairs, 2007.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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