Frank Pugh Culver (c. 1864 – June 26, 1949) was a Methodist minister who served as president of Polytechnic College, now Texas Wesleyan University.[1] [2]
Born in Alabama, Culver received an M.A. degree from Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama in 1888, and thereafter entered the ministry.[1] His first pastoral assignment being at Wetumpka, Alabama.[2] In 1911, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas to become president of Polytechnic College,[3] a position he held or eighteen months before resigning,[1] "after declaring the situation of the college—which owed more than $60,000—to be hopeless".[4] He went on to hold numerous other pastoral positions, including a 12-year period of service as presiding elder of the Cisco, Fort Worth, and Waco districts of Texas.[1]
Culver retired from preaching in 1944, following the death of his wife.[2] Culver himself died in a hospital in Fort Worth following a heart attack, at the age of 85.[1] One of his sons, Frank P. Culver Jr., served on the Supreme Court of Texas.[3]