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Paul Alexander (polio survivor)

American polio survivor (1946–2024)


Paul Alexander (polio survivor)
Paul Alexander (polio survivor)

Paul Richard Alexander was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and writer. The last man to live in an iron lung, he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. Alexander earned a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was admitted to the bar in 1986. He self-published a memoir in 2020.

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