Frank Palmer Speare (1869 – May 28, 1954) was the first president of Northeastern University, serving from 1898-1940. He began the evening program at the Boston YMCA that later became Northeastern. As founding president, he oversaw the launching of the university's evening law school, the now-defunct automobile school, the evening polytechnic schools, the school of commerce and finance, and the co-operative engineering school.
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1869 Boston, Massachusetts
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28 May 1954 (aged 84)
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