Charles T. Bernard

Charles Taylor Bernard, Sr.
Arkansas Republican Party State Chairman
In office 1971–1973
Preceded by	Odell Pollard
Succeeded by	Jim R. Caldwell
Personal details
Born	1927 Earle, Crittenden County Arkansas, USA
Political party	Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, 1968
Spouse(s)	Betty H. Bernard
Children	Charles T. Bernard, Jr.
Occupation	Farmer; businessman
Bernard in 1968 made the strongest showing of any Republican nominee against Democratic U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright in Arkansas but barely reached 40 percent.

Charles Taylor Bernard, Sr. (born 1927), 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 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 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.

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