Background
Spiro Agnew was born on November 9, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland, to an American-born mother and a Greek immigrant father.
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1971
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Mr. Agnew challenges the widely held beliefs about his alleged involvement in bribery and extortion while in office. His testimony provides a detailed, well-documented, week-by-week account of the whirlwind of events leading to his resignation and unsnarles the tangle of distorted and willfully contrived evidence that has burdened his life for the past six years.
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Spiro Agnew was born on November 9, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland, to an American-born mother and a Greek immigrant father.
Spiro attended Johns Hopkins University and graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
Considered one of the most infamous Vice Presidents in United States history, Agnew enjoyed a meteoric rise in politics when he went from Baltimore, Maryland, County Executive to the vice presidency in just three years. He joined the Republican Party and was appointed to the Baltimore County Board of Zoning Appeals in 1957. He was elected Baltimore County Executive in 1962 as a progressive-minded candidate, the first Republican to hold the post since 1895. Agnew ran for governor in 1966 and won, looking more progressive than his Democratic opponent. He was asked to join presidential candidate Richard Nixon in the 1968 election and, when he and Nixon won, became “hatchet man” for the president. He resigned from office in 1973 after pleading no contest to tax evasion charges that were brought after an investigation of alleged bribes.
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1980In accordance with his mother's wishes, the infant Spiro was baptized as an Episcopalian, rather than into the Greek Orthodox Church of his father. Nevertheless, Agnew senior was the dominant figure within the family, and had a strong influence on his son. When in 1969, after his Vice Presidential inauguration, Baltimore's Greek community endowed a scholarship in Theodore Agnew's name, Spiro Agnew told: "I am proud to say that I grew up in the light of my father. My beliefs are his."
Agnew made his first bid for political office in 1956, when he sought to be a Republican candidate for Baltimore County Council. Agnew became the highest-ranking Republican in Maryland.
Quotes from others about the person
"He helped recast the Republicans as a Party of 'Middle Americans' and, even in disgrace, reinforced the public’s distrust of government."
"It is not a far stretch to imagine that if Agnew had contested corruption charges half as hard as Nixon denied culpability for Watergate – as Goldwater and several other stalwart conservatives wanted him to – today we might be speaking of Agnew-Democrats and Agnewnomics, and deem Agnew the father of modern conservatism."
Spiro Agnew's father was born Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos in about 1877, in the Greek town of Gargalianoi.
Margaret Pollard, born Margaret Akers in Bristol, Virginia, in the early 1880s, was the youngest in a family of ten children.
