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 drafted into the U. S. Army in 1941 and was commissioned an officer on May 25, 1942, upon graduation from Army Officer Candidate School.

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.

From left to right: Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Everett Dirksen, Spiro Agnew ( with hand raised ), Hubert Humphrey.

* George Agnew Reid-Artist, raised near Wingham.

His parents were Theodore Spiros Agnew, a Greek immigrant who shortened his name from Anagnostopoulos ( Αναγνωστόπουλος ) when he moved to the US, and Margaret Marian ( Akers ) Pollard Agnew, a native of Virginia.

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

Kirk claimed that it " had been agreed " that he would run with either Rockefeller or Nixon, but Nixon chose Agnew in hopes of enhancing campaign contributions from Greek American businessmen.

As a result of his no-contest plea, the State of Maryland later disbarred Agnew, calling him " morally obtuse ".

Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.

Spiro T. Agnew, who was the Governor of Maryland from 1967 – 1969, later served as the Vice-President of the United States for a time under President Richard M. Nixon, and Agnew is, thus far, the highest-ranking Marylander in the history of the United States.

Political pundit David Boaz later commented in Liberty magazine that MacBride was " faithless to Nixon and Agnew, anyway, but faithful to the constitutional principles Rose Wilder Lane had instilled in him.

A 1993 show featuring Only Theatre of Pain-era members Williams, Agnew and Belanger, along with bassist Casey Chaos, performing live from Los Angeles ' Patriot Hall was recorded and later released in 2001 as a DVD by Cleopatra Records.

A few years later, in 1971 and 1973, Burger was on Nixon's short list of vice-presidential replacements for Vice President Spiro Agnew, along with John Connally, Ronald Reagan, and Nelson Rockefeller.

" Agnew later claimed that he believed that the prosecution which eventually drove him from office was being zealously pushed by Richardson for the specific reason that the Attorney General wished to be nominated as the next vice-president, which would either give him the inside track for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, or, should Nixon resign over Watergate, elevate Richardson to the presidency.

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.

Many years later, " David Agnew " was used for a Doctor Who book, the short story anthology Short Trips and Sidesteps, in homage to the pseudonym's use on the television series.

He covered 377 Tests for the BBC in all, forming a close working relationship with John Arlott and Brian Johnston, providing continuity with later commentators such as Jonathan Agnew.

He was the only vice president to resign until Spiro Agnew did so, 141 years later.

Twink married oboist David Agnew in 1983 and had two children, Chloe in 1989, who later sang with the group Celtic Woman, and Naomi in 1994.

He had an interest at the same time in the Eclectic Museum, for which, later, when John H. Agnew was alone in charge, he simply engraved the plates.

* Spiro Agnew ( later a Vice President )

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 )

* 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.

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.