Vice President under Richard Nixon January 20, 1969 until October 10, 1973
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, CA, and Ocean City, MD; died September 17, 1996, in Ocean City;
cremated, ashes interred at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, Timonium, MD.
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