VICE PRESIDENT SPIRO T. AGNEW - PRINTED CARD SIGNED IN INK - HFSID 54105
Price: $140.00
SPIRO T. AGNEW
Spiro Agnew signed a card from when he was Governor of Maryland.
Printed card signed: "Spiro T. Agnew" in ink as Governor of Maryland, 4¼x2¾.Lightly
soiled. Otherwise, fine condition. Included unsigned front page of the Time magazine from
1968 September 20, 7½x10¼. Mid horizontal fold though Agnew's eye. In 1962,
Republican attorney Spiro Theodore Agnew (1918-1996), born Spiro Anagnostopoulos,
was elected as County Executive of Baltimore County, Maryland, his first public office. An
outsider in a predominantly Democratic county, in 1966, Democrats selected an opponent of
integration as their candidate for the state's Governor and Agnew won the governorship.Sworn in as Governor of Maryland in January 1967, Agnew, who became noted for his
backing of tax and judicial reforms, resigned on January 7, 1969, having been elected as
Richard M. Nixon's Vice President. Reelected to the vice presidency in 1972, Agnew
resigned on October 10, 1973 in the face of charges that he had accepted $29,500 in
bribes while Governor of Maryland (and allegedly continued to receive bribes while Vice
President) and falsified federal tax returns. Agnew, who pleaded nolo contendere to the income
tax charge in federal court, was sentenced to three years probation and fined $10,000.
Disbarred in Maryland, he became an international trade executive after leaving office. Then in
1981, Agnew was ordered by a Maryland judge to pay $247,735 to the state to compensate
for bribes and kickbacks received while Governor of Maryland and Vice President from public
works contracts. Two items.
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