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| death_place=[[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]] ​

| death_place=[[Memphis]], [[Tennessee]] ​

| occupation=[[Farmer]]; [[business]]man​

| occupation=[[Farmer]]; [[business]]man​

| party=[[Republican Party nominee for the [[U.S. Senate]], 1968 ​

| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]] nominee for the [[U.S. Senate]] in 1968 ​

| office=State Chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party​

| office=State Chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party​

| term_start=1971​

| term_start=1971​

His obituary indicated that after the middle 1980s he lived with Jaynie Moon (born c. 1941). The obituary does not indicated if he and Betty were divorced. At the age of seventy-five, Bernard hiked with all the men of his family to the bottom of the [[Grand Canyon]]; at eighty-two, he completed a seven-mile combination [[kayak]] tour and trail to the waterfall in the Wailua River Valley on Kauai, Hawaii.<ref name=obit/>​

His obituary indicated that after the middle 1980s he lived with Jaynie Moon (born c. 1941). The obituary does not indicated if he and Betty were divorced. At the age of seventy-five, Bernard hiked with all the men of his family to the bottom of the [[Grand Canyon]]; at eighty-two, he completed a seven-mile combination [[kayak]] tour and trail to the waterfall in the Wailua River Valley on Kauai, Hawaii.<ref name=obit/>​

==Political activities==​

==Political activities==

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Although Fulbright was comfortably re-elected, Bernard, later the Republican state chairman from 1971 to 1973, was his strongest Republican rival, for in all previous contests Fulbright had been returned to office unopposed or without significant opposition.<ref>In 1956, for instance, Fulbright polled 83 percent of the vote against the Republican candidate Ben C. Henley of Harrison in Boone County. Like Bernard, Henley was a state party chairman.</ref> In the primary, Fulbright had handily defeated [[James D. Johnson]] of Conway, a [[segregation]]ist Democrat who had been the 1966 Democratic gubernatorial election to the then [[Governor]] [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], a  [[Mofdderate Republican]] and a younger brother oif later Vice President [[Nelson Rockefeller]]. Fulbright won his final election<ref>[[J. William Fulbright]] was unseated in 1974 in the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[primary]] election by then Governor [[Dale Bumpers]].</ref> 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.​

Although Fulbright was comfortably re-elected, Bernard, later the Republican state chairman from 1971 to 1973, was his strongest Republican rival, for in all previous contests Fulbright had been returned to office unopposed or without significant opposition.<ref>In 1956, for instance, Fulbright polled 83 percent of the vote against the Republican candidate Ben C. Henley of Harrison in Boone County. Like Bernard, Henley was a state party chairman.</ref> In the primary, Fulbright had handily defeated [[James D. Johnson]] of Conway, a [[segregation]]ist Democrat who had been the 1966 Democratic gubernatorial election to the then [[Governor]] [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], a  [[Mofdderate Republican]] and a younger brother oif later Vice President [[Nelson Rockefeller]]. Fulbright won his final election<ref>[[J. William Fulbright]] was unseated in 1974 in the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[primary]] election by then Governor [[Dale Bumpers]].</ref> 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.​