Paul Alexander

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.