Richard Harkness Templeton (September 23, 1877 – January 18, 1953) was an American lawyer from New York.
Templeton was admitted to the bar in 1901, and continued to work with Clinton until 1906, when he began his own private practice in Buffalo.
[2] In 1925, President Coolidge appointed Templeton United States Attorney for the Western District of New York.
He served in that office under Presidents Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt; although he was a lifelong Republican, the local Democrats were unable to come up with a successor for the first two years of Roosevelt's presidency.
[5] They had three children, Richard Harkness, Mary Reese, and Jean Morgan.