Paul Nathaniel Temple Jr. (March 19, 1923 - November 29th, 2016) was the Chairman Emeritus and co-founder of the

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and the

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of BioGenesis Enterprises.

Biography

Paul graduated from

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in 1944 and

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in 1948. From 1954 to 1961 he was an international petroleum concessions negotiator for

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. He and astronaut

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co-founded the

in 1973. He has been a member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences board of directors since 1973 and was the chairman from 1983 to 1999. He created the Temple Awards for Creative Altruism. He helps fund The Fellowship Foundation, a

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-based religious and political organization founded in 1935 by

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minister

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. Paul N. Temple was an insider "core member" of the Fellowship Foundation and/or Institute for Christian Leadership since the 1940s. Others classified with him in that category, per the Billy Graham Archives of Wheaton College included James Bell,

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, Wallace Haines,

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, Fred Heyn, Karlis Leyasmeyer and Albert Quie.

References

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