{"id":343905,"date":"2015-04-15T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=343905"},"modified":"2015-04-16T16:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:15:01","slug":"ex-railroad-commissioner-buddy-temple-dies-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=343905","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Railroad Commissioner Buddy Temple Dies at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/th3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/04\/th3-140x150.jpg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"140\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-343906\" \/><\/a>LUFKIN (AP) &#8211; Former Railroad Commissioner Buddy Temple, who withdrew from the 1982 Democratic primary for governor and unified the party behind state Attorney General Mark White&#8217;s eventual winning campaign, has died at age 73.    Buddy Zeagler, executive director for the Temple family&#8217;s philanthropic foundation, told The Lufkin Daily News that Temple died at his Lufkin home Tuesday.    Temple, an heir to his family&#8217;s East Texas timber empire, worked in the family business until his election to the Texas Railroad Commission in 1980. In 1982, he was part of a six-candidate Democratic primary field for governor and garnered 31 percent of the vote to White&#8217;s 45 percent. However, he declined to run in the runoff against White, who went on to topple Republican incumbent Bill Clements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUFKIN (AP) &#8211; Former Railroad Commissioner Buddy Temple, who withdrew from the 1982 Democratic primary for governor and unified the party behind state Attorney General Mark White&#8217;s eventual winning campaign, has died at age 73. Buddy Zeagler, executive director for the Temple family&#8217;s philanthropic foundation, told The Lufkin Daily News that Temple died at his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=343905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-Railroad Commissioner Buddy Temple Dies at 73<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 00:04:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343908,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343905\/revisions\/343908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}