List of physically disabled politicians

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

Contents 1 Afghanistan 2 Australia 3 Cambodia 4 Canada 5 France 6 Malaysia 7 United Kingdom 8 United States

[edit] Afghanistan

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

[edit] Australia

• Graham Edwards,ALP (member for cowan) lost both legs during the vietnam war

[edit] Cambodia

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

[edit] Canada

• Lucien Bouchard, former Ambassador to France(Canada), 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) [1]
• Sam Sullivan, current Mayor of Vancouver (quadriplegic with limited use of his extremities)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Malaysia

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

[edit] United Kingdom

• Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, is blind in one eye.
• David Blunkett, member of several governments, is blind since birth.

[edit] United States

• John Porter East, United States Senator, North Carolina (paraplegic) [2]
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States (paraplegic) [3]
• Max Cleland, United States Senator, triple amputee due to combat injury in Vietnam
• 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).
• Bob Dole, Senator and 1996 presidential candidate, has one paralyzed arm from a World War II injury.
• David Paterson, Lieutenant Governor of New York (legally blind)