Willard Woodard (December 12, 1824 – March 19, 1891) was an American politician, publisher, and parks advocate from Massachusetts.

Raised in Hopkinton, Woodard founded a store there and rose to several local political positions.

He opened a business in Hopkinton when he reached adulthood, quickly rising to local prominence.

[4] After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Woodard was one of the Committee of Seventy that oversaw the enforcement of law and order.

Woodard was the Liberal Republican Party nominee for the United States House of Representatives from his district in 1872, but was unsuccessful.

In 1877, Governor Shelby Moore Cullom named Woodard a member of the West Park Board of Commissioners.

Woodard liked to write in his free time and was a member of the Irving, LaSalle, and Massachusetts Clubs.