Bill Frist
PHOTO: Office of Senator Bill Frist
BILL FRIST

Bill Frist is a heart surgeon and currently one of Tennessee's two U.S. Senators (the other being Lamar Alexander). He is a Nashvillian by birth. His father, Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., was a very well known doctor in Nashville and one of the founders of a hospital company called Hospital Corporation of America. Frist graduated from Princeton University, then from the Harvard Medical School. By the late 1980s he was back in Nashville and was one of the founders of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, a place where people get heart transplants. Dr. Bill Frist has himself performed over 150 heart transplants.
Senator Frist visits Mozambique
PHOTO: United Methodist Church
In 1994 Bill Frist ran for public office for the first time. He pulled off a major upset that year, winning one of Tennessee's two U.S. Senate seats. For the next few years he moved rapidly up through Senate leadership and, in 2002, was elected Majority Leader of the U.S. Senate. Today Frist is talked about as a potential candidate to run for president on the Republican ticket in 2008.

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