page_title: Frank Pierrepont Graves
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Pierrepont Graves / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: English: New York State Education Department on Washington Avenue in Albany, New York, United States
context_page_description: Frank Pierrepont Graves was Commissioner of the New York State Education Department from 1921 to 1940. Prior to assuming the commissionership, Graves was a noted historian of education, college administrator, and author.
context_section_description: Graves was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1869.  He was educated in the Brooklyn Public schools, and attended Columbia University, earning an A.B. in 1889 and a Ph.D. in Greek in 1892. He gained membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Beta Phi.  In 1895, he married Helen Hope Wadsworth.
caption: The New York State Department of Education building, Albany.
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