Buddy Temple

Arthur "Buddy" Temple III (January 26, 1942 – April 14, 2015) was a businessman from Lufkin, Texas, who served as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives and on the 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), and the former Mary MacQuiston (born 1919) in Texarkana, Arkansas. He was reared in Lufkin, the seat of Angelina County in East Texas. In 1960, Temple graduated from the Lawrenceville School, a private boarding school in Lawrenceville near Princeton, New Jersey. He then briefly attended the University of Texas at Austin from 1960 to 1961, when he joined the U.S. Army, in which he remained until 1963. He worked in various businesses, including his family-owned Temple Industries from 1964 to 1966, when he ran Exeter Investment Company as Vice-President, President, and chairman from 1968 to 1982, and, again, from 1986 to 2002.

He was elected to the Railroad Commission in 1980 and was named chairman from 1985 to 1986. Temple and Texas Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong lost the gubernatorial nomination in 1982 to Mark Wells White,

In 1992, Buddy and Ellen Temple purchased a ranch near Freer in Duval County east of Laredo, Texas.