Tuesday, February 19, 2008

What happened after she finished her acting career?

Shirley Temple got married at age 17 to a soldier named Jack Agar in September 19, 1945. They had a daughter named Linda Susan in January 30, 1948. But Agar’s personal problems led them to divorce four years later in the late 1949's. It was then that Shirley met her true soulmate Charles Black in Hawaii, a former Naval Officer. They were married in Dcember, 5 1950 and had two children , Charlie Black Jr. in April 29, 1952 and Lori Black in April 9, 1954. But then Charles Black died from myelodysplastic syndrome (a bone marrow disease) at age 86 on August 4, 2005. Shirley went on to be the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana, the U.S. Chief of Protocol during Gerald Ford’s administration, a United States representative to the United Nations, and the U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia and she became involved in Republican Party politics, unsuccessfully entering a Congressional race in 1967 on a platform that supported the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. She had run against Pete McCloskey, who was famous for his opposition to the war, rare in a Republican and rarer in a retired Marine.