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Shirley
Jane Temple (b. April 23, 1928, d. 25 June 2009) is a former
U.S. diplomatic and former child actress. Starred in over 40
films during the 1930s.
For 17 years, Temple was married to a soldier become actor John
Agar (1921-2002) on September 19, 1945. They had a daughter,
Linda Susan Agar (later known as Susan Black) born January 20,
1948. Temple filed suit for divorce in late 1949 to be effective
for divorce December 5, 1950. In early 1950, while on vacation
in Hawaii, Shirley met and fell in love with California
businessman Charles Alden Black (1919-2005) and were married on
December 16, 1950. Together they had two children: Charles Alden
Black Jr., born April 29, 1952 and Lori Black born on April 9,
1954. They remained married until his death from a
myelodysplastic syndrome with 86 years on August 4 of 2005.Black
subsequently became involved in Republican Party politics,
unsuccessfully entering the 1967 congressional race in a pro-war
platform. He continued making various diplomatic posts, serving
as United States delegate at many international conferences and
summits. She was appointed United Nations delegate by President
Richard M. Nixon in 1969. She was named U.S. Ambassador to Ghana
(1974-76). In 1976, he became the first female Chief of Protocol
of the United States which put in charge of all ceremonies,
visits and gifts from the State Department to foreign leaders
and co-ordination of protocol issues with all embassies and
consulates States USA. He was ambassador to Czechoslovakia
(1989-92) and witnessed the Velvet Revolution, which said,
"That was the best job I had in my whole life." In
1987 he was named the first Honorary Foreign Service Officer in
U.S. history by then Secretary of State George Schultz.Black
appeared on the cover of People magazine in 1999 under the title
"Picture Perfect" and later that year as part of its
special report, "Surviving breast cancer." Appeared at
the Oscars in 1997 and that same year he received a Kennedy
Award.
Black served on the boards of some large companies including The
Walt Disney Company (1974-75), Del Monte, Tri-State bench and
Fireman's Fund Insurance. His appointments to the boards of
nonprofit organizations including the Institute for
International Studies at Stanford University, the Council on
Foreign Relations, the Council of American Ambassadors, the
World Affairs Council, the United States Commission for Unesco,
National Committee on US-China Relations, the Association of the
United Nations and the U.S. Citizen's Space TaskForce.Recibió
honorary doctorates from Santa Clara University and Lehigh
University, a Fellowship from College of Notre Dame and a Chubb
Fellowship from Yale University . Black now lives in Woodside,
California.
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