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Charles Taylor Bernard, Sr. (born 1927),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bernard Family Crest )〕 is an American retired businessman and politician formerly from Earle in Crittenden County in eastern Arkansas. He is best known as the 1968 Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat held by long-time Democrat J. William Fulbright of Fayetteville. Although Fulbright was comfortably re-elected, Bernard, later the Republican state chairman from 1971 to 1973, was his strongest Republican opponent, for in all previous contests Fulbright had been returned to office unopposed or without significant opposition.〔In 1956, for instance, Fulbright polled 83 percent of the vote against the Republican candidate Ben C. Henley of Harrison. Henley, like Bernard, was a state party chairman.〕 In the primary, Fulbright had handily defeated James D. Johnson of Conway, a segregationist Democrat who had lost 1966 gubernatorial general election to Republican Winthrop Rockefeller. Fulbright won his final election〔Fulbright was unseated in 1974 in the Democratic primary election by then Governor Dale Bumpers.〕 with 59.2 percent to Bernard's 40.2 percent. Bernard's ticket mate, Governor Rockefeller, scored a second two-year term by defeating the Democrat Marion H. Crank of Foreman in Little River County in southwestern Arkansas. Crank had earlier defeated Johnson's wife, Virginia Morris Johnson, in the Democratic gubernatorial runoff election. In 1970, Bernard and then Republican State Representative George E. Nowotny of Fort Smith both considered running for governor had Rockefeller not sought a third term. Bernard won the state chairmanship to succeed Odell Pollard of Searcy in White County in balloting before the GOP State Committee held in Little Rock after Rockefeller's defeat for governor in 1970. Bernard defeated Rockefeller's stated choice, William T. Kelly, Sr., of Little Rock, the Pulaski County chairman, and Everett Ham, a Rockefeller aide. The vote was 137 for Bernard, 28 for Kelly, and 27 for Ham. Delegates then named Ham as the vice chairman. John L. Ward, a Rockefeller biographer, said that Rockefeller's aides "felt like Bernard and the party had kicked Rockefeller's teeth in."〔Cathy Kunzinger Urwin, ''Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71'' (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991), p. 190, ISBN 1-55728-200-5〕 Years later, Robert Faulkner, Rockefeller's executive secretary in 1970, said that Bernard's victory for the chairmanship showed that many pre-Rockefeller Republicans in Arkansas "couldn't wait to throw out the Rockefeller influence and pick their own, more conservative, traditional Republican."〔Urwin, ''Agenda for Reform'', p. 190〕 Bernard operated One Hour Marvelizing dry cleaning establishments in eastern Arkansas.〔 He is listed in 2013 as a resident of Naples, Florida.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charles T. Bernard )〕 ==See also== *United States Senate elections, 1968 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles T. Bernard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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