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The man in the iron lung When Paul Alexander of Dallas, Texas was just six years old, he was suddenly stricken with polio — along with some 60,000 other American children that year alone. Alexander almost died before quickly being moved into a life-saving steel ventilator, better known as an iron lung. And to this very day, 70 years later, he remains inside that same device.  However, Alexander has never considered himself a victim. Despite being totally confined to his iron lung, he got his law degree, worked as a practicing attorney, and even spent eight long years painstakingly writing his memoir with a pen held between his teeth. See the photos and go inside the astonishing story of Paul Alexander, one of the last people on Earth still living in an iron lung Paul Richard Alexander (born 1946) is an American lawyer and paralytic polio survivor. He is popularly known as one of the last people living in an iron lung after he contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six. Alexander contra