Bill Frist
American physician, businessman, and politician · United States · Doctors · Born 1952 · age 74
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Something wrong?William Harrison Frist is an American physician, businessman, and policymaker who served as a United States senator for Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007.
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Senate photograph, circa 1990s.
Frist looks on as President George W. Bush signs the North Korea Nonproliferation Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109-353 (text) (PDF)) into law.
Frist with Sen. Lamar Alexander and Interior Secretary Gale Norton
Frist at the inauguration of his successor Bob Corker (second left). Along with Tennessee's former senator Howard Baker (second right), and senior senator Lamar Alexander (far right).
Frist in 2009In their own words 3
, The United States Senate has been hijacked by the Democratic leadership. Once again, it shows the Democrats use scare tactics.
Rosa Parks' bold and principled refusal to give up her seat was not an intentional attempt to change a nation, but a singular act aimed at restoring the dignity of the individual.
Avian flu, which has already killed 50 people, is only a mutation away from being transmissible from person to person. We have no immunity, no vaccines, and no cure.
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William Harrison Frist is an American physician, businessman, and policymaker who served as a United States senator for Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Frist studied government and health care policy at Princeton University and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School. He trained as a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine, and later founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. In the 1994 United States Senate election in Tennessee, he defeated incumbent Democratic senator Jim Sasser.
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