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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 2-4. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Agnew was forced to resign on Oct. 10, 1973, after a US Justice Department investigation uncovered evidence of corruption during his years in Maryland politics; he was also suspected of having continued to accept bribes while Vice President. He pleaded no contest to a charge of federal income tax evasion, was sentenced to three years' probation, fined $10,000 and was disbarred (1974) in Maryland.

U.S. Vice President under President Richard Nixon (1969-73).

He became (1967) governor of Maryland, where he won passage of an open housing law and expanded the state's antipoverty programs.

Admitted to the bar in 1949, he entered politics as a Republican and was elected (1961) chief executive of Baltimore County.

Spiro Agnew was born on November 9, 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Spiro Theodore Agnew. He was married to Elinor Isabel Judefind.

Second U.S. vice president to resign from office. The first was John C. Calhoun, who resigned 28 December 1832, while serving as vice president during President Andrew Jackson's first term.

His father was a Greek immigrant whose family surname originally was Anagnostopoulos. His mother was from a family that had lived in the United States since the 1600s, and had English ancestry.