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Robert Harder

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Robert Clarence Harder (June 4, 1929 – April 12, 2014) was an American politician and Methodist clergyman.

Born in Horton, Kansas, he received his bachelor's degree from Baker University, his master's degree in theology from Perkins School of Theology, and his doctorate degree from Boston University. Harder then served as pastor of a United Methodist Church. From 1961 to 1967, he served in the Kansas House of Representatives as a Democrat. He then served as Secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation from 1967 to 1987. He died in Topeka, Kansas of a brain tumor.[1][2]

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