Guy Kurtz Bard was a Pennsylvania educator who later became a judge of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1939 until 1952, when he resigned to be the Pennsylvania Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.
Bard was born the son of Silas E. and Miranda S. Kurtz. He graduated from Millersville State Normal School, and Franklin and Marshall College in 1916. He was a school teacher and principal in Lancaster County schools.
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