Spiro Agnew

Dead

Born: 11/9/1918 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died: 9/17/1996
Age: 77
Cause of death: leukemia

Full name: Spiro Theodore Agnew
Noted For: governor of Maryland, R (1967-69); U.S. Vice President under Richard Nixon, R (1969-73). Pleaded no contest to charges of tax evasion and resigned as vice president on 10 October 1973. Succeeded by Gerald Ford.
Quotation: "We have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."