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United States presidential election, 1972
November 7, 1972
Nominee		Richard Nixon	George McGovern
Party		Republican	Democratic
Home state		California	South Dakota
Running mate		Spiro Agnew	Sargent Shriver
Electoral vote		520	17
States carried		49	1+DC
Popular vote		47,168,710	29,173,222
Percentage		60.7%	37.5%
Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Nixon/Agnew, Blue denotes those won by McGovern/Shriver. Grey is the electoral vote for John Hospers by a Virginia faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.

Spiro Theodore Agnew  was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Richard M. Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland… During his fifth year as Vice President, in the late summer 1973, Agnew was under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Baltimore, Maryland, on charges of extortion, tax fraud, bribery, and conspiracy. In October, he was formally charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $100,000, while holding office as Baltimore County Executive, governor of Maryland, and Vice President of the United States. 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. Agnew is to date the only Vice President in U.S. history to resign because of criminal charges. Ten years after leaving office, in January 1983, Agnew paid the state of Maryland nearly $270,000 as a result of a civil suit that stemmed from the bribery allegations.