Alexander Boxwell
{{Short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Alexander Boxwell
|image=Alexander Boxwell 1896.jpg
|image_size=180px
|state_house=Ohio
|district=Warren County
|term_start=January 6, 1890
|term_end=December 31, 1899
|preceded=William T. Whitacre
|succeeded=William T. Whitacre
|party=Republican
|birth_date={{birth date|1852|10|12}}
|birth_place=near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia
|death_date={{death date and age|1923|1|23|1852|10|21}}
|death_place=Dayton, Ohio
|alma_mater=Ohio Wesleyan University
|children=Leslie, Carey
|spouse=Margaret Virginia Devericks
}}
Alexander Boxwell (1852-1923) was a Republican politician from Ohio in the united States. He was Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives 1894 to 1896.
Biography
Alexander Boxwell was born near Winchester in Frederick County, Virginia in 1852,{{cite book|title=Who's who in American Methodism|author=Price, C.F.|date=1916|publisher=E. B. Treat|url=https://archive.org/details/04944809.emory.edu|accessdate=2015-04-01}} and came in 1857 with his parents to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio.{{cite book |title=Representative men of Ohio, 1896-97 |first1=James K|last1=Mercer |first2=C N|last2=Vallandigham| location=Columbus |publisher=Mercer and Vallandigham |year=1896 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/representativem00vallgoog/page/n301 133], 134 |url=https://archive.org/details/representativem00vallgoog}}{{cite book |title=Manual of legislative practice in the General Assembly|publisher=Westbote Company| last=Ohio General Assembly| author-link=Ohio General Assembly|year=1895 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/manuallegislati00assegoog/page/n106 104], 105 |url=https://archive.org/details/manuallegislati00assegoog}} He attended the local schools and entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio at age twenty. He taught school for sixteen years and studied law.
Boxwell was admitted to the bar in 1881, and was justice of the peace for twelve years. He was first elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1889 as a Republican, and served five terms from 1890 to 1899.{{cite book|title=Manual of legislative practice in the General Assembly |last=Ohio General Assembly |author-link=Ohio General Assembly |pages=299, 302|year=1917 |publisher=State of Ohio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qesAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA299}} He was selected by his peers as Speaker for the 1894 to 1896 term.
Boxwell died at the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton in 1923 of heart disease. He had been ill for around a month prior to his death."Judge Boxwell is Dead", Hamilton Evening Journal, Thursday, January 25, 1923, Hamilton, Ohio, United States Of America He was 70. He was remembered for the Boxwell law, a law regulating rural school students to be examined prior to entering city high schools.Sandusky Star Journal, Thursday, January 25, 1923, Sandusky, Ohio, United States Of America, p. 6Sandusky Register, Thursday, January 25, 1923, Sandusky, Ohio, United States Of America, pg. 3
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Category:Speakers of the Ohio House of Representatives
Category:Republican Party members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Category:People from Springboro, Ohio
Category:People from Frederick County, Virginia
Category:Ohio Wesleyan University alumni