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Spiro Theodore Agnew [Anagnostopulos] - 39th Vice President
Party: Republican
Term: Jan 20, 1969 - Oct 10, 1973
Age at Inauguration: 51
Life Span: Nov 9, 1918 -
President:Richard Nixon

  • Of all the people who weren't fit to be vice president Spiro Agnew has to rank on every historians short list
  • He resigned from office in 1973 amid speculation of corruption, bribery, and kick-backs while serving as governor of Maryland, as well as a host of charges including income tax evasion by the U.S. Department of Justice
  • In order to save the integrity of the vice presidency he resigned just minutes before pleading nolo contendere to one count of tax evasion, although 40 plus pages of criminal activity were read into his official court record
  • Agnew was fined $10,000 and placed on probation
  • Following his term of office he began a speaking tour of the United States and later recanted his confession saying he was pressured into the whole ordeal in order to take the heat of Nixon and the Watergate investigation
  • While in office he told off-color jokes, make ethnic slurs, and once stated that he didn't campaign in the inner cities because, "If you've seen one slum you've seen them all"
  • Agnew was often referred to by the Nixon staff as "the clown"
  • He was replaced by Gerald Ford