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|name=Arthur "Buddy" Temple, III

|name=Arthur "Buddy" Temple, III

|birth_date=February 26, 1942

|birth_date=February 26, 1942

|birth_place=Texarkana, [[Arkansas]]<br>

|birth_place=Texarkana, Miller County<br>[[Arkansas]]<br>

Reared in Lufkin, Angelina County, [[Texas]]

Reared in Lufkin, Angelina County, [[Texas]]

|death_date=

|death_date=

|term_end2=December 1986

|term_end2=December 1986

|preceded2=John H. Poerner

|preceded2=John H. Poerner

|succeeded2=

|succeeded2=Clark Jobe

|branch=[[United States Army]] (1961-1963)

|branch=[[United States Army]] (1961-1963)

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'''Arthur "Buddy" Temple, III''' (born February 26, 1942), is a [[business]]man from Lufkin, [[Texas]], who served as a [[Democrat]] in the Texas House of Representatives and on the regulatory [[Texas Railroad Commission]]. He failed in a bid for his party's gubernatorial nomination in 1982.

'''Arthur "Buddy" Temple, III''' (born February 26, 1942), is a [[business]]man from Lufkin, [[Texas]], who served as a [[Democrat]] in the Texas House of Representatives and on the regulatory [[Texas Railroad Commission]]. He failed in a bid for his party's gubernatorial nomination in 1982.

Temple was born to the wealthy lumberman Arthur Temple, Jr. (1920-2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepineywoods.com/TempleObitMay06.htm|title=Arthur Temple died at 86 after heart attack|publisher=thepineywoods.com|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref> and the former Mary MacQuiston (born 1919)<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehistorycenteronline.com/documents/findingguides/2007_053_buddy_temple_legislative.pdf|title=Summary Information: Arthur "Buddy Temple"|publisher=thehistorycenteronline.com|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref> in Texarkana, [[Arkansas]]. He was reared in Lufkin in Angelina County in East Texas. In 1960, Temple graduated from the Lawrenceville School, a boarding school in Lawrenceville near [[Princeton]], [[New Jersey]].<ref name=bio/> He then briefly attended the [[University of Texas]] at [[Austin]] from 1960 to 1961, when he joined the [[United States Army]] and served until 1963. He worked in various businesses, including his family-owned Temple Industries from 1964 to 1966, when he ran the Exeter Investment Company as vice-president, president, and chairman from 1968 to 1982, and, again, from 1986 to 2002.<ref name=bio/>

Temple was born to the wealthy lumberman Arthur Temple, Jr. (1920-2006),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepineywoods.com/TempleObitMay06.htm|title=Arthur Temple died at 86 after heart attack|publisher=thepineywoods.com|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref> and the former Mary MacQuiston (born 1919)<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehistorycenteronline.com/documents/findingguides/2007_053_buddy_temple_legislative.pdf|title=Summary Information: Arthur "Buddy Temple"|publisher=thehistorycenteronline.com|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref> in Texarkana in Miller County, [[Arkansas]]. He was reared in Lufkin in Angelina County in East Texas. In 1960, Temple graduated from the Lawrenceville School, a boarding school in Lawrenceville near [[Princeton]], [[New Jersey]].<ref name=bio/> He then briefly attended the [[University of Texas]] at [[Austin]] from 1960 to 1961, when he joined the [[United States Army]] and served until 1963. He worked in various businesses, including his family-owned Temple Industries from 1964 to 1966, when he ran the Exeter Investment Company as vice-president, president, and chairman from 1968 to 1982, and, again, from 1986 to 2002.<ref name=bio/>

   

   

In 1966, he was elected to the school board in Diboll in Angelina County, with service at the height of desegregation. In 1972, Temple was elected to the District 6 seat in the Texas House in 1972 and served from 1973 to 1981 from Angelina, Newton, Shelby, and San Augustine counties. Representative Temple was co-sponsor of the 1973 State Code of Ethics, with financial disclosure for elected and appointed officials, an issue highlighted by the Sharpstown banking scandal.<ref name=history/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberdisplay.cfm?memberID=596|title=Arthur "Buddy" Temple|publisher=lrl.state.tx.us|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref>

In 1966, he was elected to the school board in Diboll in Angelina County, with service at the height of desegregation. In 1972, Temple was elected to the District 6 seat in the Texas House in 1972 and served from 1973 to 1981 from Angelina, Newton, Shelby, and San Augustine counties. Representative Temple was co-sponsor of the 1973 State Code of Ethics, with financial disclosure for elected and appointed officials, an issue highlighted by the Sharpstown banking scandal.<ref name=history/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberdisplay.cfm?memberID=596|title=Arthur "Buddy" Temple|publisher=lrl.state.tx.us|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref>

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