Editing Jim Bunning (section)

==Education and family==
Bunning was born in [[Southgate, Kentucky]], the son of Gladys (née Best) and Louis Aloysius Bunning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/senators/bunning.htm |title=Learning Centers at ancestry.com |publisher=Freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com |access-date=March 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522103109/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~battle/senators/bunning.htm |archive-date=May 22, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He graduated from [[St. Xavier High School (Cincinnati)|St. Xavier High School]] in [[Cincinnati]] in 1949<ref name="perfect games">{{cite book |last=Coffey |first=Michael |title=27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games |publisher=Atria Books |location=New York |year=2004 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/27menoutbaseball00coff/page/79 79–95] |isbn=0-7434-4606-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/27menoutbaseball00coff/page/79 }}</ref> and received a bachelor's degree in economics from [[Xavier University]] in 1953.<ref name=sabr>{{cite web|url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bcacaa59|title=Jim Bunning|first=Ralph |last=Berger|publisher=[[Society of American Baseball Research]]|access-date=May 27, 2017}}</ref> Like a large percentage of residents in the [[Northern Kentucky]] region, the Bunning family was [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]].

In 1952, Bunning married Mary Catherine Theis. They had five daughters and four sons. One of Bunning's sons, [[David Bunning]], is a federal judge for the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky]], who presided over the Kim Davis case, ''[[Miller v. Davis]]''. Jim and Mary Catherine also have 35 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, as of 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wcpo.com/sports/baseball/jim-bunning-fifty-years-ago-perfect-game-put-stamp-on-hall-of-fame-career|title=Jim Bunning: Fifty years ago, perfect game stamped his Hall of Fame ticket|author=Greg Noble|work=WCPO|access-date=January 23, 2015|date=June 21, 2014}}</ref>  One of those grandchildren is Patrick Towles, a former starting quarterback for the [[Kentucky Wildcats football|University of Kentucky football team]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukathletics.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/patrick_towles_807276.html|title=Patrick Towles Bio – Kentucky Wildcats Official Athletic Site|work=ukathletics.com|access-date=January 23, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215055559/http://www.ukathletics.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/patrick_towles_807276.html|archive-date=February 15, 2015}}</ref>