Cordell Hull State Office Building Cordell Hull State Office Building The Cordell Hull State Office Building is a historic building in Nashville, Tennessee. The building is located on the grounds of the Tennessee State Capitol, at 425 5th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. The building was constructed from 1952 to 1954. It is 36.58 metre high and 348,606 square feet, with ten storeys. It was designed in the Art Deco architectural style. It was named in honor of Cordell Hull (1871–1955), a Tennessean who served as the 47th United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 2013, Jones
Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt improved even if GBS had been diagnosed. Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt The paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt began in 1921 when the future President of the United States was 39 years old. His main symptoms were fever; symmetric, ascending paralysis; facial paralysis; bowel and bladder dysfunction; numbness and hyperesthesia; and a descending pattern of recovery. Roosevelt was left permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He was diagnosed with poliomyelitis at the time, but his symptoms are more consistent with Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) – an autoimmune neuropathy which Roosevelt's doctors failed to consider as a diagnostic possibility. In