Rock the Vote: Spiro Agnew

For the month of October, we’ll be doing a daily series of posts featuring some of the most memorable politicians from the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s. You can see many cool additional images at Boom Underground.

Illustration by Walt Kelly, from Pogo, 1970

See a full Pogo strip featuring the Spiro Agnew lookalike dog character here

Spiro Agnew was Governor of Maryland and Vice-President of the United States under President Richard Nixon, from 1969-73. He resigned in 1973 after being charged with accepting bribes.