The elder son of Judith (née Folk) Templeton and investor, businessman and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, Jack Templeton served as the Chairman and President of the John Templeton Foundation. He was born in New York City and graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of Elihu senior society, as was his father.
Harvard Medical School. Yale University.
He later earned a medical degree at Harvard Medical School, and then served as a physician in the United States. Navy. In 1977, he went to work at the Children"s Hospital of Philadelphia as a pediatric surgeon and trauma program director He retired in 1995, as chief of pediatric surgery at Children"s Hospital of Philadelphia to become head of the John Templeton Foundation.
Templeton was an evangelical Christian.
The Templeton Honors College at Eastern University is named in his honor. He was a substantial contributor to conservative causes.
In 2009, he donated $300,000, again to the National Organization Foreign 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 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
