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Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said. He was 78.
Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) 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 ...
The polio survivor spent more than 70 years being kept alive by the medical device.
Confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child, Paul Alexander managed to train himself to breathe on his own for part of the day, earned a law degree, wrote a book about his life ...
Martha Ann Lillard [1] (born June 8, 1948) is an American polio survivor who is still living in an iron lung.After Paul Alexander's death, she became the last known person to still live in an iron lung.
Paul Alexander, 78, American lawyer and paralytic polio survivor, complications from COVID-19. [300] Mohammed Barakat, 39, Palestinian footballer (national team), airstrike. [301] Robert L. Barry, 89, American diplomat, ambassador to Bulgaria (1981–1984) and Indonesia (1992–1995), complications from dementia. [302]
Paul Alexander was paralysed from the neck down after contracting the virus in 1952. He died on Monday after being taken to hospital with Covid. When he was six years old, Mr Alexander was rushed ...
Konstantin was born in Tsarskoye Selo on 27 April 1779, the second son of the Tsesarevich Paul Petrovich and his wife Maria Fyodorovna, daughter of Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg. Of all Paul's children, Konstantin most closely resembled his father both physically and mentally. [2]