Child star Shirley Temple died yesterday (Feb 10, 2014). After retiring from theater, she became active in the Republican Party at which time she attended various fund raising events.
![Mary Louise Smith, Pat Pardun, Mary Brooks, Lois Reed, and Shirley Temple Black at the Republican Women's Conference, Washington, D.C., 1968](https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/files/2014/02/Mary_Louise_Smith_with_Pat_Pardun_Mary_Brooks_Lois_Reed_and_Shirley_Temple_Black_at_the_Republican_Womens_Convention_1968.jpg)
![Mary Louise Smith, Shirley Temple Black, Jerry Mursener, and Paula Travis at party fund-raiser, Iowa, November, 1977](https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/studio/files/2014/02/mls0067a_frontjpg.jpg)
She also served as U.S. Ambassador to Ghana from 1974–1976, was Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1976–1977, and was U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1989–1992.