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Paul Alexander

1946 - 2024

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Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and author. After contracting polio in 1952 at the age of six, he spent the remainder and vast majority of his life in an iron lung, and is currently recognized as the person to have spent the longest period of time occupying one at almost 72 years. Decades following his disablement, 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-published a memoir in 2020 and, late in life, built a following on TikTok. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Alexander is the 13th most popular lawyer (up from 57th in 2019), the 575th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,643rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Lawyer.

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Among lawyers, Paul Alexander ranks 13 out of 136. Before him are Henri La Fontaine, Ulpian, Gaius, Al-Nawawi, Aemilius Papinianus, and Tobias Asser. After him are J. Edgar Hoover, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Merrick Garland, Rudolf von Jhering, Doug Emhoff, and Roy Cohn.

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Among people born in 1946, Paul Alexander ranks 45. Before him are Syd Barrett, Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, Emerson Fittipaldi, Robert Fripp, Oliver Stone, and Masoud Barzani. After him are Timothy Dalton, David Suchet, Liza Minnelli, Arrigo Sacchi, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, and Boris Berezovsky. Among people deceased in 2024, Paul Alexander ranks 27. Before him are Hassan Nasrallah, Akira Toriyama, Françoise Hardy, Louis Gossett Jr., Arnold Rüütel, and Sven-Göran Eriksson. After him are Thomas P. Stafford, Roger Guillemin, Jim Simons, Leon Cooper, Herbert Kroemer, and Dési Bouterse.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Alexander ranks 575 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeff Bridges (1949), Lauren Bacall (1924), Rock Hudson (1925), Charles Cooley (1864), Jon Brower Minnoch (1941), and Prince (1958). After him are Irving Langmuir (1881), Dusty Rhodes (1945), Viggo Mortensen (1958), Brian De Palma (1940), Thomas P. Stafford (1930), and Charlie Parker (1920).

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Among LAWYERS In United States

Among lawyers born in United States, Paul Alexander ranks 2. Before him are John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960). After him are J. Edgar Hoover (1895), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841), Merrick Garland (1952), Doug Emhoff (1964), Roy Cohn (1927), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Warren Christopher (1925), Scooter Libby (1950), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1959), and Judy Sheindlin (1942).

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