Spiro Agnew was forced to resign from his position as Vice President under President Nixon due to charges of tax evasion and bribery. He later pleaded no contest to the charges.
Spiro Agnew is the U.S. vice president who was impeached but did not resign. He served as vice president under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. Agnew resigned from office in 1973 due to charges of tax evasion and bribery.
Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States under Richard Nixon, resigned in 1973 due to a bribery scandal related to kickbacks he received from contractors during his time as Governor of Maryland.
President Gerald Ford became vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned when he was found guilty of tax evasion. Nixon then resigned after the Watergate scandal and Ford then became President.
accepted bribes and evaded taxes. Agnew was charged with bribery and tax evasion related to his time as the governor of Maryland. Rather than face impeachment, Agnew decided to resign from office in 1973. He later pleaded no contest to the charges and was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay fines.
Spiro T. Agnew pleaded guilty to tax evasion and resigned as vice-president in 1973.(Gerald Ford, who later became President when Nixon resigned, was appointed to take Agnew's place.)
Raymond Burr
Although it was not an official firing, Spiro T. Agnew had to resign in 1973. He had plead no contest to charges of federal income tax evasion.
"The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."Article II section 4 US Constution.
The first Vice-President for Richard M. Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, was Spiro T. Agnew, who served as Vice-President from 1969 to 1973. The second Vice-President for Nixon was Gerald R. Ford, who served as Vice-President from 1973-1974, succeeding Nixon as President on August 9, 1974 following Nixon's resignation from office.
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Richard Nixon was elected with Spiro Agnew as his running mate in 1968 and again in 1972. On October 10, 1973 he resigned as Vice-President in a scandal about bribery. Gerald Ford was appointed Vice-President - a role he filled until RIchard Nixon also resigned on August 9th, 1974. Ford was then appointed President.