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Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and author. He contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six and spent the vast majority of his life in an iron lung for more than 70 years.
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The polio survivor spent more than 70 years being kept alive by the medical device.
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Paul Alexander, 78, spent more than 70 years confined to an iron lung after contracting polio as a child in 1952. Despite the challenges, Alexander still managed to make significant strides in ...
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 ...
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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.