Paul Alexander
American lawyer and polio survivor (1946-2024) · United States · Writers · Died at 78
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Something wrong?He spent 72 years inside an iron lung - longer than anyone in recorded history - and still managed to pass the bar.
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About this person
Paul Richard Alexander contracted polio in 1952 at six years old and never left the machine that kept him breathing. Decades later, confined but not stopped, he earned a bachelor's degree and a Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, then was admitted to the bar in 1986. He practiced law, self-published a memoir in 2020, and late in life found an audience on TikTok. He died on March 11, 2024, having lived nearly all his 78 years in a cylinder of steel and determination.
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