The VP After Hubert is Spiro, a five letter word. Spiro Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon. He was the first Greek-American to hold the office and the second vice president to resign. Agnew was born in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Johns Hopkins University. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later became a lawyer. He was elected Governor of Maryland in 1966 and then Vice President in 1968.