What was the U.S. Presidents name who served in a wheel chair-did he start his term in the wheel chair or did?
Can’t say Roosevelt because the question is then asked which President Roosevelt, Teddy or FDR. Both Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt served as US President. And it was FDR who is best known for being in a wheelchair due to his polio (although in 2003 a group of doctors claimed it was actually Guillain-Barré syndrome) which he contracted in 1921, though he did everything he could to hide it from the American public for fear it would make him look weak. There are terribly few pictures of him in a wheelchair, you’d see him from the waist up, seated in a normal chair, or standing leaning on someone or some thing. This photo (http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/… is one of the rare photos of him in a wheelchair.
What was the U.S. President’s name who served in a wheel chair-did he start his term in the wheel chair or did he end up in a wheel chair as a result to an illness,injury or age? ?Franklin Delano Roosevelt Yes he started his term in the wheel chair he ended up in a wheel chair as a result to an illness—————————— Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945 and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s paralytic illness In August 1921, while the Roosevelts were vacationing at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Roosevelt contracted an illness, at the time believed to be polio, which resulted in Roosevelt’s total and permanent paralysis from the waist down. For the rest of his life, Roosevelt refused to accept that he was permanently paralyzed.
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