List of physically disabled politicians

List of physically disabled politicians

The following is a list of politicians who hold or held office while having a significant physical disability.

Afghanistan

*Mohammed Omar, Taliban leader and former head of state (blind in one eye due to a shrapnel injury).

Australia

*Graham Edwards, Australian Labor Party (former Member of Parliament for Cowan): lost both legs during the Vietnam War

Cambodia

*Ta Mok, Khmer Rouge leader (amputee).
*Hun Sen, Prime minister (blind in one eye due to a war wound).

Canada

*Lucien Bouchard, former Ambassador to France, leader of the Bloc Québécois and Premier of Quebec (amputee due to necrotizing fasciitis)
*Diane Finley, current Minister of Citizenship and Immigration; visually impaired
*Steven Fletcher, current Member of Parliament; first quadriplegic MP
*Pierre Sévigny, former Member of Parliament and Associate Minister of National Defence (amputee) [http://www.answers.com/topic/pierre-s-vigny]
*Sam Sullivan, current Mayor of Vancouver (quadriplegic with limited use of his extremities)

Czech republic

*Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha, czech general and Hussite leader, follower of Jan Hus. He took part in the civil wars in Bohemia in the reign of Wenceslaus IV. Legal records from 1378 mention Jan Žižka z Trocnova, hinting that if the nick-name žižka meant one-eye, early chronologer Aeneus Sylvius Piccolomini, Pius II was correct in stating the loss of the eye was the result of a childhood fight. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%BDi%C5%BEka]

France

*Georges Couthon, one of the leaders of the French Revolution, was a paraplegic.
*Louis XVIII, King of France, was paralysed by gout in his final years.
*Antoine Pinay, French Prime Minister, could not use his right arm due to a World War I injury.
*Jean-Marie Le Pen, member of the European Parliament and Presidential candidate, is blind in one eye.

Israel

*Ilan Ghilon, member of Knesset.
*David Rotem, member of Knesset.

Malaysia

*Karpal Singh, member of parliament for Bukit Gelugor. An accident has since left him wheelchair-bound.

Poland

*Malgorzata Olejnik, member of Sejm.

United Kingdom

*Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, is blind in one eye.
*David Blunkett, member of several governments, is blind since birth.
*Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth, member of the House of Lords, paralyzed from neck down following a car accident.

United States

*John Porter East, United States Senator, North Carolina (paraplegic) [http://www.answers.com/topic/john-porter-east]
*Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States (paraplegic) [http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/fdrbio.html]
*Max Cleland, United States Senator from Georgia, triple amputee due to combat injury in Vietnam
*Daniel Inouye, U.S. Senator from Hawaii, lost his right arm to combat injury in World War II
*Bob Kerrey, Governor of Nebraska and U.S. Senator from Nebraska, lost one leg below the knee due to combat injury in Vietnam
*George Wallace, governor of Alabama, paraplegic due to a bullet wound sustained in a 1972 assassination attempt
*Bob Dole, Senator and 1996 presidential candidate, has had a paralyzed right arm since a World War II injury
*David Paterson, Governor of New York (legally blind)


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