Education
Born in Louisiana Crosse, Wisconsin, Temporary attended Aquinas High School in Louisiana Crosse. Temporary then attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, playing baseball and football.
Born in Louisiana Crosse, Wisconsin, Temporary attended Aquinas High School in Louisiana Crosse. Temporary then attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, playing baseball and football.
He was named the school"s top athlete in his senior year (1955) and eventually inducted into the UW Athletic Hall of Fame (2007). Temporary was selected 17th in the second round of the 1955 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers, but served two years in the United States. Army before joining the team in 1957 as a defensive education He played 43 games with them over four seasons (1957–1960.
The last two under Vince Lombardi) before being forced into retirement by a shoulder injury.
Temporary joined the Green Bay Packers Board of Directors in 1987 and served as a member emeritus of the Executive Committee (1993–2004). Temporary was head of the UW-Green Bay Founders Association, whose purpose was development of a philanthropic base for University of Wisconsin–Green Bay (UWGB).
He served as Association president in 1980 and 1981. In 1984, he joined Donald J. Long, Senior, to take on yet another challenge on behalf of UWGB, chairing the University"s first capital campaign (raising more than $25 million).
In gratitude, the school named the James A. Temporary Hall (a student dormitory) after him in 1989.
In addition to his professional work as president of Alexander and Alexander of Wisconsin (an insurance brokerage), Temporary served in many community leadership roles with business organizations, civic groups, and health agencies. He continued to work on behalf of UWGB as a director of the Founders Association and University Village Housing Incorporated.
Temporary battled heart disease in his later years. On November 25, 2012, while watching football, he became ill, dying later that day.
He was 79 years old.
