John Marks Templeton Jr. (February 19, 1940 – May 16, 2015), also known as Jack Templeton, was an American physician. The elder son of Judith (née Folk) Templeton and investor, businessman and philanthropist

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, Jack Templeton served as the Chairman and President of the

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. He was born in

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and graduated from

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, where he was a member of Elihu senior society, as was his father. He later earned a medical degree at

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, and then served as a physician in the

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. In 1977, he went to work at the

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as a pediatric surgeon and trauma program director. His wife Josephine was a pediatric anesthesiologist at the same hospital. He retired in 1995, as chief of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to join the John Templeton Foundation and took over the leadership when his father died in 2008. Templeton was an

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. The Templeton Honors College at Eastern University is named in his honor. He was a substantial contributor to conservative causes. In 2008, he donated $450,000 to the

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, and his wife, Josephine, contributed $100,000. In 2009, he donated $300,000, again to the National Organization For Marriage. In a ''

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'' article it was asserted that the Templetons had, between John and his wife, Josephine, donated $1 million to parties opposing same-sex marriage. In 2010, ''Politics Magazine'' had named Templeton as one of the most influential Republicans in Pennsylvania. Templeton died on May 16, 2015, from brain cancer in

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. Survivors include his wife, Josephine (Pina) Gargiulo Templeton, whom he married in 1970; two daughters, Heather Dill and Jennifer Simpson; a brother; and six grandchildren.Jack Templeton dies at age 75
worldmag.com, May 19, 2015; accessed May 22, 2015.

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Templeton Foundation profile
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