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    Vice president of the United States from 1969 to 1973

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    Spiro Agnew's father was born Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos in about 1877, in the Greek town of Gargalianoi, Messenia. [1] [2] The family may have been involved in olive growing and been impoverished during a crisis in the industry in the 1890s. [3]

  2. May 10, 2024 · Spiro Agnew (born November 9, 1918, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died September 17, 1996, Berlin, Maryland) was the 39th vice president of the United States (1969–73) in the Republican administration of President Richard M. Nixon. He was the second person to resign the nation’s second highest office ( John C. Calhoun was the first in 1832 ...

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  3. Jul 16, 2018 · Known For: Serving as vice president under Richard M. Nixon and resigning for tax evasion. Born: Nov. 9, 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Parents' Names: Theophrastos Anagnostopoulos, who changed his surname to Agnew, and Margaret Marian Pollard Agnew. Died: Sept. 17, 1996 in Berlin, Maryland, USA. Education: Law degree from the University of ...

  4. Sep 17, 1996 · Spiro Theodore Agnew was born November 9, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of Theodore S. Agnew and his Virginia-born wife, Margaret Pollard Akers. Spiro Agnew was, in his own words, a "typical middle class youth" who spoke and wrote very well and gained experience writing speeches for his father's many appearances before ethnic and ...

  5. Sep 18, 1996 · Spiro Theodore Agnew was born in Baltimore on Nov. 9, 1918. His father, whose name had been Anagnostopoulos, arrived in the United States from Greece in 1897; his mother was a native of Virginia.

  6. May 17, 2018 · Agnew, Spiro Theodore. ( b. 9 November 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland; d. 17 September 1996 in Berlin, Maryland), vice president of the United States who resigned and pleaded no contest to charges of tax evasion. Agnew grew up in a Democratic household. His father, Theodore Spiro Agnew, whose name was originally Anagnostopolous, emigrated from ...

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  8. Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section of Baltimore County, Maryland, to Theodore Spiros Anagnostopoulos and Margaret Akers, a native of Virginia. Spiro's father emigrated from Gargalianoi, Greece , to the United States in 1897, and owned a diner famous for its chicken souvlaki and spanakopita.