Background
He was born on May 8, 1897, in Brooklyn.
politician member of the New York State Senate
He was born on May 8, 1897, in Brooklyn.
He attended Public School Number. He graduated in absentia from Brooklyn Law School in 1918, while training at Camp Gordon, Georgia, to become a United States. Army officer
68 in Brooklyn, Saint Charles College, Maryland, and the College of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. 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.
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.
Burkard was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd Doctorate) from 1927 to 1930, sitting in the 150th, 151st, 152nd and 153rd New York State Legislatures.