Alexander Boxwell

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, and came in 1857 with his parents to Springboro, Warren County, Ohio. 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. He was selected by his peers as Speaker for the 1894 to 1896 term. 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.