Paul Alexander (lawyer)

Paul Richard "Polio Paul" Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American lawyer, autobiographer and paralytic polio survivor. He was popularly known as one of the last people living in an iron lung. He got sick with polio in 1952 at the age of six. He was born in Dallas, Texas.

He self-published his memoir, Three Minutes for a Dog with Polio, in April 2020. It took him more than eight years to write it.

Alexander has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the person who has spent the longest amount of time living in an iron lung.

Alexander died on March 11, 2024 from COVID-19 in Dallas at the age of 78.

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