David Hayes Agnew ( November 24, 1818 – March 22, 1892 ) was an American surgeon.

Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.

Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918September 17, 1996 ) was the 39th Vice President of the United States ( 1969 – 1973 ), serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland ( 1967 – 1969 ).

During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer of 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the United States Attorney's office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery and conspiracy.

On October 10, 1973, Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $ 29, 500 of income received in 1967, with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President.

Spiro Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Agnew was raised in his father's Greek Orthodox religion, and later converted to Episcopalianism.

In line with what would later be called Nixon's " Southern Strategy ", Agnew was selected as a candidate because he was sufficiently from the South to attract Southern moderate voters, yet was not identified with the Deep South, which might have alienated Northern centrists come election time.

As late as early 1968, Agnew was a strong supporter of Nelson Rockefeller, one of Nixon's opponents, but by June had switched to supporting Nixon.

Agnew soon found his role as the voice of the so-called " silent majority ", and by late 1969 he was ranking high on national " Most Admired Men " polls.

Agnew was known for his scathing criticisms of political opponents, especially journalists and anti-war activists.

Agnew was often characterized as Nixon's " hatchet man " when defending the administration on the Vietnam War.

Agnew was chosen to make several powerful speeches in which he spoke out against anti-war protesters and media portrayal of the Vietnam War, labeling them " Un-American ".

By some accounts, the notoriously thin-skinned President was also resentful that the self-confident Agnew was so popular with many Americans.

By 1970, Agnew was limited to seeing the president only during cabinet meetings or in the occasional and brief one-on-one, with Agnew given no opportunity to discuss much of anything of substance.

One plan to achieve this was to try to persuade conservative investors to purchase one of the television networks, and then invite Agnew to run it.

Another was to see if Bob Hope would be willing to take Agnew on as his partner in his cable television investments.

In April 1973, when revelations about Watergate began to surface, Agnew was the choice of 35 percent of Republican voters to be the next Republican nominee for President, while then-California Governor Ronald Reagan was second on the Gallup Poll.

Invitations for Agnew to give speeches across the country flooded into his office, and he became a top fundraiser for the Republican Party.

" He argued that Nixon's conservative tactics ( meaning particularly the speeches of Vice-President Spiro Agnew ) were playing into the hands of radicals.

In 1991 Jonathan Agnew and Brian Johnston, commentators on BBC Radio's Test Match Special, got themselves into difficulty while commentating on Ian Botham's dismissal ( Botham dislodged his leg bail whilst trying to step over the stumps, having lost his balance in missing a hook shot against Curtly Ambrose ), Agnew commenting that he " couldn't quite get his leg over ".

M-50 then ran concurrently with US 16 into Grand Rapids where it turned to the west and traveled through Allendale before terminating at a junction with US 31 in Agnew.

From 2004-2009, Lisa played with Dinah Cancer & the Grave Robbers which has morphed into the return of 45 Grave with guitar legend Rikk Agnew of Christian Death on guitar.

* August 5 – August 8 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U. S. President and Spiro Agnew for Vice President.

* Spiro Agnew biography on U. S. Senate website

Calhoun was the first vice president in U. S. history to resign from office, doing so on December 28, 1832 ( Spiro Agnew did so in 1973 ).

He is the longest serving Governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek American Governor in U. S. history, after Spiro Agnew.

Richardson denied then and later taking any extraordinary steps in the investigation of Agnew, instead leaving the task up to the U. S. Attorney in Baltimore.

* Spiro Agnew, former U. S. Vice President, buried in Timonium

They include: " In Florida ", about the 2000 election ; " Without DeLay ", a song about the former congressman ; " Bobbitt ", about John and Lorena Bobbitt ; " Little Bitty Gun ", which lampoons Nancy Reagan ; " I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler ", about the federal loan guarantee to Chrysler in 1979 ( which was rewritten in 2008 as " I Am Changing My Name to Fannie Mae " about the 700 billion dollar " bailout of the U. S. financial system "); " The Ballad of Spiro Agnew ", and " Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation " ( which became " George W. Told the Nation " in 2007 ).

" Rockefeller said that he would serve the remainder of the term to which Spiro Agnew had been elected in 1972 ; after Agnew's resignation, Ford, and then Rockefeller, had become the only persons to ever be appointed as U. S. Vice-President.

Agnew, Michigan is a tiny unincorporated hamlet located at at the intersection of US 31 and M-45 in Grand Haven Charter Township of Ottawa County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

image: Spiro Agnew Congratulates Launch Control After Launch of Apollo 17-GPN-2002-000058. jpg | Vice President Spiro Agnew congratulates launch control after the launch

Vice President Spiro Agnew urged Capp to run in the Democratic Party Massachusetts primary in 1970 against Ted Kennedy, but Capp ultimately declined.

He also helped found the Irwin & Agnew Iron Foundry in 1846.

In 1889 he became the subject of the largest painting ever made by the Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins, called The Agnew Clinic, in which he is shown conducting a mastectomy operation before a gallery of students and doctors.

* Agnew, D. Hayes.

Eamon Ryan – Leader, Catherine Martin – Deputy Leader, Roderic O ' Gorman – Chairman, Martin Nolan – Treasurer, Catherine Fravalo – Deputy National Coordinator, Micheal Callaghan – Young Greens, Damian Connon, Roderic O ' Gorman, Claire Bailey, Dominick Donnelly – National Coordinator, Steven Agnew, Marianne Butler, Darcy Longergan, Trish Forde-Brennan and Stan Nangle.

In 1871, Arthur Severn married Joan Ruskin Agnew, a cousin of the Victorian art and social critic John Ruskin.

* During the war between the United States and North Vietnam, Vice President Spiro Agnew accused newspapers of anti-American bias, and in a famous speech delivered in San Diego in 1970, called anti-war protesters " the nattering nabobs of negativism.

* 1918 – Spiro Agnew, 39th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1996 )

* 1973 – Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with federal income tax evasion.

Accordingly, the resignations of President Nixon and of Vice-President Spiro Agnew, domestic issues, were formalized in instruments delivered to the Secretary of State.

No Vice President has ever been impeached, least of all convicted ; in 1973, Spiro Agnew came the closest.

The first such instance occurred in 1973 following the resignation of Spiro Agnew as Richard Nixon's Vice President.

* November 9 – Spiro Agnew, American Vice President ( d. 1996 )

Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounces the President's critics as ' an effete corps of impudent snobs ' and ' nattering nabobs of negativism '.

* September 17 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States ( b. 1918 )

Indeed, for Vice President Agnew it has become a code-word describing the activities of muggers, arsonists, draft evaders, campaign hecklers, campus militants, anti-war demonstrators, juvenile delinquents and political assassins.

In 1969 President Richard Nixon formed the Space Task Group, chaired by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.