Charles Alden Black

Charles Alden Black
Born	March 6, 1919(1919-03-06) Oakland, California, U.S.
Died	August 4, 2005(2005-08-04) (aged 86) Woodside, California, U.S.
Spouse	Shirley Temple Black (December 16, 1950–August 4, 2005) (his death) (2 children)

Charles Alden Black (March 6, 1919 – August 4, 2005) was a California businessman known for aquaculture and oceanography, and for his marriage to Shirley Temple Black.

Black was born in Oakland, California. He was married to the legendary former child actress and diplomat Shirley Temple from December 16, 1950, until his death from myelodysplastic syndrome on August 4, 2005, at his home in Woodside, California, at the age of 86. They had a son Charles Alden Black Jr. and a daughter Lori Black.

Black graduated from Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and Stanford University (class of 1940). His father, James Byers Black, was president of Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Black attended Harvard Business School for one year, and left to enter the Navy in 1941.

He served in the Navy during World War II, as an intelligence officer in the South Pacific, and again during the Korean War as an intelligence officer. After WWII he received his MBA from Stanford in 1946, and then in the late 1950s he lived in Hawaii and worked as an executive for Castle & Cooke and Dole Pineapple companies. By the end of the Korean War he was a lieutenant commander.

During the 1950s he was an executive at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International) and Ampex Corp. but in the 1960s gravitated to what would become the bulk of his life's work—aquaculture and oceanography. He co-founded a hatchery for oysters and abalone and later created Mardela Corp., a fishery and hatchery company headquartered in Burlingame, California, which conducted ventures such as catfish and salmon farming. He later served as a consultant on maritime issues and served as a regent for Santa Clara University.

External links

• In Memoram: Charles A. Black
• The Spy Who Loved Her

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Name	Black, Charles
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Date of birth	March 6, 1919
Place of birth	Oakland, California, U.S.
Date of death	August 4, 2005
Place of death	Woodside, California, U.S.