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Spiro Agnew

1918 - 1996

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Spiro Theodore Agnew (; November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second of two vice presidents to resign the position, the first being John C. Calhoun in 1832. Agnew was born in Baltimore to a Greek immigrant father and an American mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spiro Agnew has received more than 8,926,050 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Spiro Agnew is the 5,585th most popular politician (up from 5,780th in 2019), the 1,781st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,979th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular American Politician.

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  • 63

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  • 6.48

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Spiro Agnew ranks 5,585 out of 19,576. Before him are Nikolay Shvernik, Władysław Raczkiewicz, George XII of Georgia, Al-Musta'in, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, and Hisham III of Córdoba. After him are Lestek, Helena of Moscow, Karl August von Hardenberg, Radagaisus, Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, and William Walker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Spiro Agnew ranks 74. Before him are Takashi Kasahara, Robert Aldrich, John Forsythe, João Figueiredo, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and Edward A. Murphy Jr.. After him are B. K. S. Iyengar, Fernando Peyroteo, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria, Jin Youzhi, and Henry Calvin. Among people deceased in 1996, Spiro Agnew ranks 68. Before him are Hideo Sakai, Hans Blumenberg, Piet Hein, Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este, Leonor Fini, and Virginia Henderson. After him are Bob Paisley, Toru Takemitsu, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Mieczysław Weinberg, Michel Debré, and Pavel Sudoplatov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Spiro Agnew ranks 1,781 out of 20,380. Before him are Donna Reed (1921), Malcolm Glazer (1928), Frank Wilczek (1951), Asa Gray (1810), Robert J. Flaherty (1884), and Ian Somerhalder (1978). After him are Johnny Kitagawa (1931), Sterling Hayden (1916), Clark L. Hull (1884), William Walker (1824), Mary McDonnell (1952), and Frank Oppenheimer (1912).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Spiro Agnew ranks 123. Before him are Chief Seattle (1786), Mark Felt (1913), Mitch McConnell (1942), Hiram Bingham III (1875), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), and Clement Greenberg (1909). After him are William Walker (1824), Paul Wolfowitz (1943), Sam Houston (1793), Ben Carson (1951), Ron Paul (1935), and Cyrus Vance (1917).

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