October 10, 1973
Vice-President Spiro Agnew resigns from office.
Spiro Agnew, Vice-President under Richard Nixon was the second Vice President to resign while in office. He resigned the same day he pleaded "no contest" to charges of federal income tax evasion. Although he was not jailed, he was fined $100,000, sentenced to three years probation and disbarred. Prior to being named Vice-President, he had been Republican Governor of Maryland. During Nixon's second term, the US Justice Department uncovered evidence of Agnew's corruption. Agnew was replaced as Vice President by Gerald Ford. Not long after Agnew's resignation, Richard Nixon was forced to resign under charges of corruption, paving the way for Gerald Ford to be the only President of the US to have never been elected President or Vice-President.
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