Stephen Frederick Burkard (May 8, 1897 – August 22, 1957) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
He graduated in absentia from Brooklyn Law School in 1918, while training at Camp Gordon, Georgia, to become a U.S. Army officer.
In October 1931, his brother Otto H. Burkard (c.1888–1931) died by suicide in Patchogue, New York.
[4] 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.