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Full Name	Bill Frist
Occupation	Former United States Senator
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1952(1952-02-22)
Age	72
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Bill Frist Biography

Bill Frist is one of the most popular and richest Former United States Senator who was born on February 22, 1952 in United States. Frist attacked his 1994 opponent Senate incumbent Jim Sasser, of “sending Tennessee money to Washington, DC” and added, “While I’ve been transplanting lungs and hearts to heal Tennesseans, Jim Sasser has been transplanting Tennesseans’ wallets to Washington, home of Marion Barry.” In the course of the campaign, he criticised Sasser for attempting to be elected Senate Majority Leader saying that Sasser would be more focused on dealing with Senate business rather than Tennessee business. Frist was victorious and defeated Sasser with 13 percentage points during his 1994 Republican win over the two Houses of Congress and thus becoming the first physician to serve in the Senate since the 17th of June 1938, the day that Royal S. Copeland died.

Frist was a part of the lab under the direction of W. John Powell Jr. at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1977 and continued to study cardiovascular physiology. He left the laboratory at the end of 1978 and became a surgical resident in the surgical department at Massachusetts General Hospital. The following year, he worked for his time in Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, England as a senior surgical registrar in cardiothoracic surgeries. After returning in Massachusetts General in 1984 as chief resident and fellow in cardiothoracic surgery. From 1985 until 1986 Frist was a chief resident and senior fellow in the cardiac transplant program and cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine.

After completing his fellowship, he became a faculty member at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he began a heart and lung transplantation program. He became a staff surgeon at the Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital. In 1989, he founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. In 1991, Frist operated on then–Lieutenant Colonel David Petraeus after he had been shot in a training accident at Fort Campbell.

In 1990, Frist met with former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker about the possibilities of public office. Baker advised him to pursue the Senate, and in 1992 suggested that Frist begin preparations to run in 1994. Frist began to build support. He served on Tennessee’s Governor’s Medicaid Task Force from 1992 to 1993, joined the National Steering Committee of the Republican National Committee’s Health Care Coalition, and was deputy director of the Tennessee Bush-Quayle 1992 campaign.

Frist completed his studies at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville followed by Princeton University in 1974, which is where he studied health health policy in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He graduated in 1972 and had an internship during the summer alongside Tennessee Representative Joe L. Evins, who advised Frist that if he wished to pursue a career in politics it was best to first pursue an occupation that was not related to politics. Frist went on into Harvard Medical School, where earned the degree that conferred the title of Doctor of Medicine with honours in the year 1978. While at Harvard He lived in an apartment with the his future United States Congressman David Wu.

Bill Frist Net Worth

Bill Frist is one of the richest Former United States Senator from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bill Frist 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

William Harrison Frist (born February 22nd 1952) is an American doctor, businessman and politician. His first job was as a lung and heart transplant surgeon. He then served two years as an Republican United States Senator representing Tennessee. In 2003, he was Senate Majority Leader from 2003 until 2007.

When he was an undergraduate student at medical school back in the late 1970s Frist carried out fatal research and vivisections of shelter cats in the course of researching the effects of medications for mitral valves. According to his own accounts, Frist improperly obtained these cats from Boston shelters and in deceitfully telling staff at the shelter that they could adopt the cats to be pets. In his autobiography, Frist asserted that he was a victim of pressure to be successful in an extremely demanding medical school.

In June 1989, Frist published his first book, Transplant: A Heart Surgeon’s Account of the Life-And-Death Dramas of the New Medicine, in which he wrote, “A doctor is a man whose job justifies everything … Life [is] a gift, not an inalienable right.” With J. H. Helderman, he edited “Grand Rounds in Transplantation” in 1995. In October 1999, Frist co-authored Tennessee Senators, 1911–2001: Portraits of Leadership in a Century of Change with J. Lee Annis, Jr.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Bill Frist Dating?

According to our records, Bill Frist married to Tracy Lynne Roberts , Karyn Frist. As of December 1, 2023, Bill Frist’s is not dating anyone.

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Frist was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of Dorothy (née Cate) Frist and Thomas Fearn Frist, Sr. He is a fourth-generation Tennessean. His father was a doctor and founded the health care business organization which became Hospital Corporation of America. Frist’s brother, Thomas F. Frist, Jr., became chairman and chief executive of Hospital Corporation of America in 1997.

Facts & Trivia

Bill Ranked on the list of most popular Former United States Senator. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Bill Frist celebrates birthday on February 22 of every year.

In his 2000 reelection campaign, Frist easily won with 66 percent of the vote. He received the largest vote total ever by a statewide candidate. Frist’s 2000 campaign organization was later fined by the Federal Election Commission for failing to disclose a $1.44 million loan taken out jointly with the 1994 campaign organization. Frist paid a civil fine of $11,000 in a settlement with the FEC.

What is Bill Frist doing now?

Currently Senator Frist serves as an adjunct professor of Cardiac Surgery at Vanderbilt University. As a leading authority on healthcare, Senator Frist speaks nationally on health reform, government policy, global health, education reform, and volunteerism.

Is Bill Frist a Republican?

Republican Party

How much is the Frist family worth?

Tommy Frist Jr. and family, founder of Nashville-Based HCA Healthcare Inc., topped the rankings for Greater Nashville with an estimated net worth of $20.8 billion , according to Forbes — good for No. 35 on the nationwide list.

What is Thomas Frist Jr net worth?

17.3 billion USD (2022)

Who is the richest family in Tennessee?

• 7. Bill Haslam. …

• 6. Brad Kelley. …

• 5. Jon Yarbrough. …

• 4. Jimmy Haslam. …

• 3. Martha Ingram & family. …

• 2. Fred Smith. …

• 1. Thomas Frist Jr & family. – Net worth: $18.2 billion (#91 wealthiest in the world) …

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