High Profile POLITICAL FIGURES (across spectrum) who overcame disabling conditions and achieved success and re-election

 Greg Abbott (paraplegic

after accident in 1984)

Max Cleland (triple

amputee, Vietnam veteran - 

lost limbs from grenade attack)

Dan Crenshaw (Afghanistan War veteran

who lost an eye due to IED attack)

Daniel Inouye (Japanese-American

who lost an arm in W.W. II combat

fighting alongside our allies due

to grenade shrapnel)

John McCain (Vietnam P.O.W.

for many years, despite being an

admiral's son, lost use of arm due

to mistreatment by his captors

and little medical / First Aid)