Sen. Bill Frist: A Timeline
Re-elected to the U.S. Senate with 66 percent of vote.  Chairman NRSC, 2000-02. Sept.-Oct.- Anthrax attacks. Author When Every Moment Counts  Dec. 23 - Elected Senate Majority Leader. Jan. - Senate term ends; not seeking re-election.
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Early exploration into seeking public office. Deputy Director TN Bush-Quayle.  Serves on Gov.'s Medicaid Task Force, 1992-93.  Wins six-person primary.  Elected to U.S. Senate def. Sen. Jim Sasser (D) 57%-43%. Deputy Whip.  Co-author of Tennessee Senators, 1911-2001
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Marries Karyn McLaughlin (Three sons: Harrison, Jonathan, Bryan). Continues postdoc. training at S'hampton General Hospital in England. Continues postdoc. training at MassGen. Senior fellow and chief resident at Stanford University School of Medicine. Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1986-93. Founds Vanderbilt Transplant Center.  Author of Transplant: A Heart Surgeon's Account...
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Graduates from Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville. Interns for Congressman Joe L. Evins (R-TN). Graduates from Princeton University with A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School. Graduates from Harvard Medical School with M.D..  Resident in surgery MassGen 1978-83.
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First solo flight on day turns 16.
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Born Feb. 22, 1952 in Nashville, TN, youngest of five children. ...grows up in Belle Meade, a suburb of Nashville...
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