From August 1921 to early 1928, Franklin Roosevelt devoted himself to treating his disability, a sudden paralysis called Guillain-Barré syndrome, diagnosed at the time as polio. He helped the others disabled by funding a hydrotherapy center in Georgia. He overcame the disease by running for governor of New York in the fall of 1928. In public, he walked with a cane had a helper; in private he used a wheelchair. On 6 November 1928, Franklin Roosevelt won the election for New York Governor by a narrow margin in the Mars-Saturn period (from May 2, 1927 to October 30, 1929). He was 46 years old.
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