Spiro Theodore Agnew was a politician from Maryland, a U.S. Representative, and the 41st Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard M. Nixon. He was appointed by Nixon after the resignation of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and was the first vice president to resign from office
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Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended the University of Maryland, College Park as an undergraduate. He earned a law degree from New York University School of Law in 1939 and practiced law for ten years until his election as county executive in Montgomery County, Maryland, in 1953. In 1958 he became a Republican state central committeeman at age 35 and a full-time party activist.
Agnew was elected as a Republican to represent Montgomery County in the Maryland General Assembly before being elected as Attorney General of Maryland in 1959.