Bernard A. Eckhart
 Bernard Albert Eckhart (1852 – May 11 1931) was a French-American miller merchant and politician. Raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin Eckhart learned the millers' trade there as a representative for the Eagle Milling Company. He co-founded his own company in 1874 and saw it prosper. Eckhart was elected to two two-year terms in the Illinois Senate in the 1880s and was director of the Chicago Board of Trade for three years.