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WILLIAM TEMPLE

Sir William Temple was an English statesman and essayist. He was born in 1628 at London and died in 1699. Educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge he represented Carlow in the Irish parliament in 1660, and became a diplomat in 1665. In 1668 he affected the alliance between England and Holland and Sweden and in 1677 brought about the marriage of William of Orange and Mary.

William Temple was an American politician. He was a Whig governor of Delaware from 1846 until 1847.
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