Spiro Agnew
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Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 under President Richard Nixon. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the
Official portrait, 1972
Downtown Baltimore around the time of Agnew's birth
The courthouse at Towson, in Baltimore County, Maryland
A Civil Rights march, September 1963, protesting the Alabama church bombings. Agnew opposed such marches and demonstrations.
John C. Calhoun
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John Caldwell Calhoun was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Calhoun began his political career as a national
Spiro Agnew
…Baltimore County from 1962 to 1966 and the 55th governor of Maryland from 1967 to 1969. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832. Agnew was born in Baltimore to a Greek immigrant father and an American mother. He attended Johns Hopkins University and graduated from the…
Portrait of Calhoun, c. 1845
Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun
Charles Bird King's 1822 portrait of Calhoun at the age of 40
State historic marker at Fort Hill, Calhoun's home from 1825 until his death in 1850