Malone won. Bunker became a hotel manager and then joined his brother in founding the Bunker Brothers mortuary. Bunker ran for lieutenant governor in 1962 but lost to Republican Paul Laxalt, in part because former Carville supporters still resented his defeat of their candidate in 1946. Death His wife Lucile Bunker died in 1988. He soon married Della Lee in 1989. Bunker died in 1999 and was interred in Bunker's Eden Vale Cemetery. He was the last living senator who was serving at the time of the United States' declaration of war on Japan, which precipitated the United States' participation in World War II, and was the last living person who had served as a senator during the time FDR was president. Berkeley L. Bunker Elementary School in Las Vegas is named after him. Personal life Bunker was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served a mission for the church in the southern United States after high school and before his marriage. After his time in the Senate, Bunker served as bishop of a LDS ward in Las Vegas, and was involved with the building of the Las Vegas Nevada Temple. References |- |- |- 1906 births 1999 deaths 20th-century Mormon missionaries American Mormon missionaries in the United States Democratic Party members of the Nevada Assembly Democratic Party United States senators from Nevada People from Clark County, Nevada American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada 20th-century American politicians Latter Day Saints from Nevada