 Following his resignation due to pleading "nolo contender / no contest" to federal legal charges of corruption during his earlier terms as Baltimore County Executive, Maryland Governor and into the Vice Presidency, Agnew's official gubernatorial portrait was removed "Damnatio memoriae" from the Maryland State House Governor's Reception Room from 1979 until 1995.Then-Governor Parris Glendening stated that in re-including Agnew's portrait that it was not up to anyone to alter history, whether for good or bad, citing the famous novel by George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four".As of 2015, Maryland has yet to have been served by a female governor.