Bill Frist

William Harrison Frist (born February 22, 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee and a cardiac surgeon. Since 2003, he has served as Senate Majority Leader. He is frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.

Personal life

Frist has been married to his wife, Karyn, a former flight attendant, since 1982. They have three sons, Harrison, Jonathan, and Bryan. As of 2005, Harrison is a senior at Princeton University, Jonathan is a freshman at Vanderbilt University, and Bryan attends St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.. The Frist family are members of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C..

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Flight attendant - 1982 - Princeton University - Vanderbilt University - St. Albans School - Washington, D.C. - National Presbyterian Church

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Frist has been a pilot since the age of 16. He holds commercial, instrument and multi-engine ratings. He has also run seven marathons and two half-marathons.

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Pilot - Marathon

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In June, 1989, Frist published his first book, Transplant: A Heart Surgeon's Account of the Life-And-Death Dramas of the New Medicine. 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. In March, 2002, Frist published his third book, When Every Moment Counts: What You Need to Know About Bioterrorism from the Senate's Only Doctor. While generally well received, the book later spurred accusations of hypocrisy regarding his remarks about Richard Clarke. When Clarke published his book Against All Enemies in 2004, Frist stated "I am troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on September 11, 2001." In response, readers "monkeywrenched" the Amazon.com user reviews of his book; however, they did not know that he did not profit from the book. In December 2003, Frist and coauthor Shirley Wilso released Good People Beget Good People: A Genealogy of the Frist Family, to lukewarm reviews. Frist has also written medical articles.

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1989 - 1995 - October - 1999 - 1911 - March - 2002 - Richard Clarke - September 11, 2001 - Amazon.com

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In 1998 he visited African hospitals and schools with the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse.

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1998 - Africa - Christian - Samaritan's Purse

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Frist has a fortune in the millions of dollars, most of it the result of his ownership of stock in Hospital Corporation of America, the for-profit hospital chain founded by his brother and father. Frist's 2005 financial disclosure form lists blind trusts valued between $7 million and $35 million.

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Members of the Frist family have been major donors to Princeton University, pledging a reported $25 million in 1997 for the construction of the Frist Campus Center. http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_old/PAW97-98/03-1022/1022note.html Frist has said that, a few years after his 1974 graduation from Princeton, "I made a commitment to myself that if I was ever in a position to help pull together the resources to establish a center where there could be an informal exchange of ideas, and to establish an environment that is conducive to the casual exchange of information, I would do so." http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2001/05/09/Interview/An.Interview.With.Senator.Bill.Frist.74-75174.shtml

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Princeton University - 1997 - 1974

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