Frankin D. Roosevelt had polio as a young man. He is legs were severely crippled as a result. He could stand with braces and give speeches. He tried to keep his affliction hidden.
no he developed it before he was president.
FDR was crippled from polio before he took office and had only limited use of his legs.
He developed what was diagnosed as infantile paralysis in 1921, before he was elected governor or President.
POLIO
No, but President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio while in office.
Did Benjamin Disraeli convert from Judaism before becoming UK Prime Minister and was it then, and now constitutional requirement before, holding office
No. But he/she can be immune while holding office.
Presidents who did not hold elected office before they were President are Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.
Scientists were able to create a vaccine that protects people from the polio virus.
4 years
The person currently holding a particular office is the incumbent.
polio after he took office i believe In Aug 1926 while vacationing in NewBrunswick he contracted an illness that at the time was believed to be polio which resulted in permanent paralysis from the waist down. It was actually found out later that he had Guillain-Barre Syndrome not polio.