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Charles Alden Black

Charles Alden Black (6 March 1919-4 August 2005) was a California businessman and the second husband of Shirley Temple.

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Charles Alden Black was born in Santa Monica, California in 1919 to a patrician and conservative family, and he served as a US Navy intelligence officer in the Pacific during World War II and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Commander by the end of the Korean War. He married the actress Shirley Temple in 1950, and he went on to engage in the aquaculture and oceanography businesses. He died in 2005 at the age of 86.