Robert E. Temple.

About Robert E. Temple

Robert Emmet Temple was an American attorney and military officer from Castleton, Vermont. An 1828 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he was a veteran of the Seminole Wars and served until resigning as a first lieutenant. He practiced law in Albany, New York from 1839 to 1847 and from 1846 to 1847 served as Adjutant General of New York with the rank of brigadier general. He returned to the army for the Mexican–American War in 1847; commissioned as a colonel, he was appointed to command the 10th Infantry Regiment, which he led until being discharged in 1848. After the war, he returned to his Albany law practice, and he served as state adjutant general again from 1853 to 1854.