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AGNEW, Spiro Theodore (1918-1996)
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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.

  • Agnew, Spiro T. Go Quietly ... or else. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1980.
  • Albright, Joseph. What Makes Spiro Run: The Life and Times of Spiro Agnew. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972.
  • Cohen, Richard M., and Jules Witcover. A Heartbeat Away: The Investigation & Resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. New York: Viking Press, 1974.
  • Coyne, John R. The Impudent Snobs: Agnew vs. the Intellectual Establishment. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1972.
  • Lippmann, Theo. Spiro Agnew's America. New York: Norton, 1972.
  • Lucas, Jim G. Agnew: Profile in Conflict. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1970.
  • Marsh, Robert. Agnew: The Unexamined Man, A Political Profile. New York: M. Evans, 1971.
  • Witcover, Julian. Very Strange Bedfellows: The Short and Unhappy Marriage of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. New York: PublicAffairs, 2007.