need help, please. WHO are the senators who have been ill, and continued to serve?

[niyad]

I have heard there were either 7 or 9, but the only ones I have seen mentioned are democrats (except for the SD sen.) anybody know who they all are, and how long they were incapacitated?

thank you in advance.

[MonkeyFunk]

1. I don't know them all..

but Senator Charles Sumner didn't enter the senate for 3 years after being viciously attacked on the floor by a colleague.

[BOSSHOG]

Senator Mundt back in the 60's??

[ChipsAhoy]

9. Do tell.

I know nothing about this vicious attack. Please fill me in a bit.

thanks

[CountAllVotes]

2. Specter

Arlen

:dem:

[CountAllVotes]

4. also ...

Sen. John F. Kerry

:dem:

[izzie]

3. Half the old guys in the place look ill to me.

I do recall one came in on a stretcher to vote once.

[MonkeyFunk]

6. Yes

Senator Strom Thurmond was once brought in on a hospital bed.

[mitchum]

5. Strom "Dirtbag" Thurmond R-SC served the last several years...

from a bed at Walter Reed Hospital

[jobycom]

7. Strom Thurmond was in pretty bad shape his final years

Reports were that he was barely functional at 100. He died soon after leaving office.

[lonehalf]

8. Paul Coverdell (R,GA) remained ...

...a Senator until he died.

Governor Roy Barbes replaced him with Zell Miller,

[conscious evolution]

10. Ga. State Senator Roger Bruce

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2006/12/15/natsenside1215a.htmlGeorgia State Rep. Roger Bruce knows what U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson is going through. He's been there.

"Bruce suffered a debilitating brain hemorrhage in 2004 and was diagnosed with a congenital arteriovenous malformation, the same illness now affecting the South Dakota Democrat.


In April of that same year, just 42 days after he passed out, Bruce went back to the State Capitol to announce plans to run for re-election. And by June, he was campaigning door to door.

Bruce said he doesn't have any lingering symptoms, though he occasionally feels an odd sensation in his head when the weather turns cold or hot. He is about to begin his third term in the Georgia House of Representatives. ....."

[Morgana LaFey]

11. Here's a list

It's in here somewhere --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2653023