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Spiro Agnew
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| Order: | 39th Vice President |
| Term of Office: | January 20, 1969 - October 10, 1973 |
| Followed: | Hubert Humphrey |
| Succeeded by: | Gerald Ford |
| Date of Birth | November 9, 1918 |
| Place of Birth: | Baltimore, Maryland |
| Date of Death | September 17, 1996 |
| Place of Death: | Berlin, Maryland |
| Wife: | Judy Agnew |
| Profession: | Governor of Maryland |
| Political PartyA political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues. In party-list proportional representation, parties (and sometimes multi-party cartels) can play a functional role in the voting system.: | Republican |
| PresidentThe President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. Under the U. Constitution, the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and commander in chief of the armed forces. Because of the superpower status of th: | Richard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon ( January 9, 1913 April 22, 1994) was the thirty-sixth ( 1953 1961) Vice President, and the thirty-seventh ( 1969 1974) President of the United States. He is the only man to have been elected twice to the Vice Presidency and twice to |
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Spiro Theodore Agnew, born Spiro Anagnostopoulos ( November 9, 1918– September 17, 1996), was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United StatesThe Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who is "a heartbeat from the presidency. As first in the presidential line of succession, the Vice President becomes the new Presi, serving from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard M. Nixon. He studied chemistry at Johns Hopkins University and earned a law degree from the University of Baltimore.
1 Maryland Career
He was elected as chief executive of Baltimore County in 1962 as a reformer and Republican outsider in a predominantly Democratic county. Democrats also helped elect him governor of Maryland in 1966 when the Democratic primary selected an opponent of integration as that Party's candidate. As governor, he backed tax and judicial reforms and projected an image of racial moderation during the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. His moderate image, immigrant background and successful political career in a traditionally Democratic state made him an attractive running mate for Nixon in 1968.
