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|image=Bill_Frist_inner.jpg

|image=Bill_Frist_inner.jpg

|party=[[Republican]]

|party=[[Republican]]

|spouse=Karyn Frist

|spouse=Karyn Frist (1981 - 2012)<br>Tracy Roberts (2015 - present)

|religion=Presbyterian

|religion=[[Presbyterian]]

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{{Officeholder/senator

{{Officeholder/senator

|terms=January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2007

|terms=January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2007

|preceded=Jim Sasser

|preceded=Jim Sasser

|former=n

|former=y

|succeeded=[[Robert Corker]]

|succeeded=[[Robert Corker]]

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==Medical career==

==Medical career==

Frist was born in Nashville, Tennessee on February 22, 1952. He graduated from Montgomery Bell Academy and later [[Princeton]] University in 1974. In 1978 he received a Doctor of Medicine degree with honors from [[Harvard]] Medical School. He worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and later Southampton General Hospital. Frist is currently a licensed physician who has performed over 150 heart transplants and lung transplants.

Frist was born in Nashville, Tennessee on February 22, 1952. He graduated from Montgomery Bell Academy and later [[Princeton]] University in 1974. In 1978 he received a Doctor of Medicine degree with honors from [[Harvard]] Medical School. He worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and later Southampton General Hospital. Frist is a licensed physician who has performed over 150 heart transplants and lung transplants.

==Political career==

==Political career==

Bill Frist was elected to the [[United States Senate]] in 1994 after defeating [[Democratic]] [[incumbent]] Jim Sasser by thirteen percentage points. He easily won his 2000 reelection with sixty-six percent of the vote. After Senator [[Trent Lott]] resigned his position as Senate Majority Leader in 2003, Frist was chosen unanimously by Senate Republicans as his replacement. In the Senate, Frist pushed for [[President]] [[George W. Bush]]'s tax cuts and legislation that was against [[Partial-birth abortion]], though he has broke with the Bush administration and Republicans with his support for federally funded embryonic stem cell research.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072900158.html</ref>

Bill Frist was elected to the [[United States Senate]] in 1994 after defeating [[Democratic]] [[incumbent]] Jim Sasser by thirteen percentage points. He easily won his 2000 reelection with sixty-six percent of the vote. After Senator [[Trent Lott]] resigned his position as Senate Majority Leader in 2003, Frist was chosen unanimously by Senate Republicans as his replacement. In the Senate, Frist pushed for [[President]] [[George W. Bush]]'s tax cuts and legislation that was against [[Partial-birth abortion]], though he has broke with the Bush administration and Republicans with his support for federally funded embryonic stem cell research.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072900158.html</ref>

==References==

==References==

==External links==

==External links==

* [http://www.volpac.org/ VOLPAC, Bill Frist's Political Action Committee]

* [http://www.volpac.org/ VOLPAC, Bill Frist's Political Action Committee]

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