Presidents and Disability

Various sources list different counts of which Presidents had disabilities.

Here we provide the most comprehensive list including those who weren’t able to be diagnosed in their lifetime, but current understanding believes they would have been.

Joe Biden, 1942-
(speech disorder – stuttering)
46th United States President

William Jefferson Clinton, 1946-
(hard of hearing/wears hearing aids)
42nd President of the United States

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969
(learning disability)
34th President of the United States

Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
(learning disability including stuttering and dyslexia)
3rd President of the United States

John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
(learning disability, chronic pain and Addison's disease)
35th President of the United States.

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
(depression, chronic pain and probably Marfans Syndrome)
16th President of the United States.

James Madison, 1751-1836
(epilepsy)
4th President of the United States.

Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004
(hard of hearing)
40th President of the United States.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945
(polio lead to partial paralysis)
32nd President of the United States

Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919
(asthma and blind in one eye)
26th President of the United State

George Washington, 1732-1799
(learning disability, probably dyslexia)
1st President of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924
(learning disability, probably dyslexia)
28th President of the United States

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