Fox (December 15, 1948 – June 23, 2022)[1] was an American Republican politician from Fairfield Township, Butler County, Ohio.
[2] Fox was honored by having the newly constructed Ohio State Route 129, a limited access highway connecting Hamilton and Liberty Township with Interstate 75, named for him.
[5] The Dayton Daily News of 24 June 2022, noted that Fox had directed large sums to support Miami University and had been influential in creating the Government Services Center in Hamilton.
Until the mid 1980s all traffic on High Street, Hamilton was inconvenienced by the railroad crossing near the current underpass.
In 2012, he was sentenced to 4 years in prison after having pleaded guilty to complicity to commit mail and wire fraud and filing a false tax return.