of the Confederation of Canada Medal. Author Templeton wrote plays performed on television. Templeton's first novel, The Kidnapping of the President (1974), was a bestseller and was adapted into a 1980 film. He wrote several other novels. In Farewell to God (1995 or 1996), he described his conversion to agnosticism and his reasons for doing so. He won the B'nai B'rith book award. Politics He came second in an election for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, although he was its vice-president in 1964 and 1965. Inventor Templeton made his own unsuccessful designs of a child-resistant medicine cap, a cigarette filter and a pipeline. His design for a teddy bear that could stay warm for many hours was widely manufactured. Personal life While he was an evangelist, Templeton married evangelist and singer Constance Oroczy in 1939. In 1957, they divorced. In 1959, he married singer Sylvia Murphy, whom he met while producing a television drama; they also divorced. In 1980, he married author Madeleine Helen Stevens Leger, staying married until he died. He had four children: Michael, Deborah, Bradley, and Tyrone. Death On June 7, 2001, Charles Templeton died from Alzheimer's disease. References External links Photo archive curated by Brad Templeton Anecdotal Memoir (1982) by Charles Templeton, online version 1915 births 2001 deaths Artists from Toronto Canadian agnostics Canadian cartoonists Canadian male novelists Canadian non-fiction writers Ontario Liberal Party candidates in Ontario provincial elections Canadian evangelicals Christian writers Members of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Former Protestants Canadian television evangelists CTV Television Network people Canadian radio personalities Toronto Star people Canadian evangelists Maclean's writers and editors Writers from Toronto 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male non-fiction writers Writers about religion and science 20th-century non-fiction writers