Harold Henry Barker (15 June 1889 – 23 March 1949) was a Minnesota Farmer-Laborite politician, candidate for Governor of Minnesota, and a Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives, in 1930, where he caucused with the Liberal Caucus in the then-nonpartisan body. In 1937, he was elected to serve as speaker, a position he held for two years. His father, H. W. Barker, served in the Wisconsin State Senate.

In 1946, Barker served as the second gubernatorial candidate after of the merger of the Minnesota Democratic and Farmer-Labor Parties into the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, losing to Luther Youngdahl.[1]

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  1. ^ Minnesota Legislators Past and Present
Political offices
Preceded by Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives
1937–1939 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Endorsed Gubernatorial Candidate,
Minnesota DFL State Convention
1946 		Succeeded by
DFL nominee for Governor of Minnesota
1946