Charles Taylor Bernard Sr. (September 10, 1927 – June 27, 2015)[1] was an American businessman and politician originally from Earle, 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.
[1] He farmed cotton at Earle and operated One Hour Martenizing dry cleaning establishments in eastern Arkansas.
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.
[1] 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.