Judy Agnew
| Judy Agnew | |
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| Second Lady of the United States | |
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In role January 20, 1969 – October 10, 1973 |
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| President | Richard Nixon |
| Preceded by | Muriel Humphrey |
| Succeeded by | Betty Ford (Dec. 1973) |
| First Lady of Maryland | |
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In role January 25, 1967 – January 7, 1969 |
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| Governor | Spiro Agnew |
| Preceded by | Helen Gibson |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Mandel |
| Personal details | |
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Elinor Isabel Judefind April 23, 1921 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Died | June 20, 2012 (aged 91) Rancho Mirage, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Spiro T. Agnew (m. 1942–1996; his death) |
| Children | Pamela Lee James Rand Susan Scott Elinor Kimberly |
Elinor Isabel "Judy" Judefind Agnew (April 23, 1921 – June 20, 2012) was the Second Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1973. She was the wife of the 39th Vice President of the United States, Spiro Agnew, who also served as Governor of Maryland.
Born Elinor Isabel Judefind in Baltimore, Maryland, to parents of French-German descent, Agnew was daughter of William Lee Judefind, a chemist, and his wife, the former Ruth Elinor Schafer. Her paternal grandfather was a Methodist minister.
Agnew confessed in an interview with Parade magazine that her father had believed college education to be wasted on women, so in lieu of attending college, Agnew worked as a filing clerk. While working at the Maryland Casualty Company, she met Theodore Agnew, whom she called "Spiro". They went to a movie on their first date together, and bought chocolate milkshakes afterward.
She married Agnew on May 27, 1942 in Baltimore; he had graduated from Army Officer Candidate School two days earlier. They had four children: Pamela Lee Agnew (Mrs. Robert E. DeHaven), James Rand Agnew, Susan Scott Agnew (Mrs. Colin Neilson Macindoe), and Elinor Kimberly Agnew.
While living in Annapolis with her husband and their four children, Agnew served as the president of her local PTA, and volunteered as both an assistant Girl Scout troop leader and a board member of the Kiwanis Club women’s auxiliary. When speaking to the press, Agnew spoke in what she called a "Baltimorese" accent. She became known by the local press for serving cocktails in glass peanut butter jars, although she once publicly attempted to refute this claim. She was the First Lady of Maryland from January 1967 to January 1969.
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