Frank Pierrepont Graves (July 23, 1869 – September 13, 1956) 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.

[4] Graves became Commissioner of the New York State Education Department in 1921, and held that post under six governors, for nearly two decades.

[5] Under his tenure, the state took major steps in rural school consolidation, an important, if often very controversial, endeavor.

[1][7] In 1937, Graves ruled that Rose Freistater was ineligible to be issued a teaching license for being overweight.