Paul Alexander
American lawyer and polio survivor (1946–2024)
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United StatesHe spent 72 years inside an iron lung — longer than anyone in recorded history — and still managed to pass the bar.
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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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