Stephen F. Burkard

Stephen F. Burkard (born May 8, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was born on May 8, 1897, in Brooklyn.^[1] He attended Public School No. 68 in Brooklyn, St. Charles College, Maryland, and the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated in absentia from Brooklyn Law School in 1918, while training at Camp Gordon, Georgia, to become a U.S. Army officer. World War I ended before Burkard could serve in the field. In December 1918, he was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Ridgewood, Queens.^[2]

Burkard was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd D.) from 1927 to 1930, sitting in the 150th, 151st, 152nd and 153rd New York State Legislatures.

In October 1931, his brother Otto H. Burkard (c.1888–1931) committed suicide in Patchogue, New York.^[3]

On January 23, 1935, he was arrested at his home in Woodside, Queens, on a bench warrant for first degree grand larceny. Burkard was accused of having appropriated $1,000 which had been given to him by a client in 1932 to buy stock of the Bank of the Manhattan Company. Burkhard neither bought the stock nor returned the money.^[4]

References

1. New York Red Book (1927; pg. 41)
2. see Long Island Daily Press, January 23, 1935
3. REALTY MAN ENDS LIFE; Brother of Former State Senator Burkard Dies in Patchogue in the New York Times on October 16, 1931 (subscription required)
4. BURKARD HELD ON CLIENT'S THEFT CHARGE in the Long Island Daily Press, of Jamaica, Queens, on January 23, 1935 [with portrait]