Which US president was physically the most fucked-up?

[Hypoxia]

Who was the most wrecked, physically? Not counting assassinations and attempts.

Not Reagan's growing senility. Not fat Taft stuck in his bathtub. No, more than that. Nixon drinking himself into oblivion in his final months. Kennedy needing constant meds to stay ambulatory. Wilson and Ike's strokes. Jackson's epileptic fits. (Okay, I made that up.)

Which Prez was worst off?

 

[Queersetti]

Over the long haul, I'd say FDR.

Peak fucked up would probably be Wilson, who was almost completely incapacitated for the last year and a half of his term.

 

[Weird Harold]

You missed the obvious choice: Wheelchair-bound FDR who died in office from "natural causes" (aka congestive heart failure)

 

[lickitandstickit]

You missed the obvious choice: Wheelchair-bound FDR who died in office from "natural causes" (aka congestive heart failure)

That was the first that entered my mind.

 

[ryan8558]

You missed the obvious choice: Wheelchair-bound FDR who died in office from "natural causes" (aka congestive heart failure)

yes, polio put him in that wheelchair.

 

[phrodeau]

Chester Arthur had a bad case of nephritis.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I read that LBJ named his cock Jumbo and had no qualms whipping it out in public.

 

[ishtat]

Gotta be William Henry Harrison. Caught a cold at his inauguration - dead 30 days later on April 4 1841, he spent most of the period he was elected for as a rotting corpse.

 

[Noor]

Kennedy had fairly severe Addison's.

 

[OldJourno]

William McKinley.
Granted, he didn't have gangrene in his stomach for very long, but that's way fucked up.

 

[Noor]

William McKinley.
Granted, he didn't have gangrene in his stomach for very long, but that's way fucked up.

He did spend a lot of time on his front porch...

https://youtu.be/PSNIX32m698

 

[Boxlicker101]

Gotta be William Henry Harrison. Caught a cold at his inauguration - dead 30 days later on April 4 1841, he spent most of the period he was elected for as a rotting corpse.

He was also the oldest POTUS until Reagan passed him.