Howard Burton Bard (October 20, 1870 – May 22, 1954) was an American Unitarian minister and politician who served as mayor of San Diego from 1942 to 1943.

Bard was appointed mayor of San Diego on November 30, 1942 after Percy Benbough died in office, and finished out the term in 1943.

During the late 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s Bard hosted a continual series of meetings, debates and forums at the First Unitarian Church and when the crowds grew too large to be comfortably accommodated there, on the canyon terraces behind his home in San Diego's Bankers Hill neighborhood.

Hundreds of people turned out to hear debates on Prohibition, the rise of Nazism, American Isolationism, Government Corruption, the International Labor Movement, the Spanish Civil War and similar issues of the day.

Bard sent invitations to many State and National leaders as well as citizens across San Diego to meet and argue virtually anything of note on the terraces of his Front Street home which he called “La Barranca Encantada” (The Enchanted Canyon).